shinny, shinney
(noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck
clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter
(verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
Source: WordNet® 3.1
shinny (third-person singular simple present shinnies, present participle shinnying, simple past and past participle shinnied)
To climb in an awkward manner.
shinny (uncountable) or shinny hockey
(Canada) An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.
(Canada) Street hockey.
(Canada, informal) Hockey.
(US, anthropology) A hockey-like game played by American Indians.
shinny (uncountable)
Moonshine (illegal alcohol)
Source: Wiktionary
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
