shinny
verb
[ ˈʃɪni ]
• another term for shimmy.
• "he loved to shinny up that tree"
Similar:
climb (up/down),
clamber up/down,
scramble up/down,
scrabble up/down,
swarm up/down,
shoot up/down,
go up/down,
mount,
ascend,
scale,
claw one's way up,
descend,
slide down,
drop down,
shin,
Origin:
late 19th century: from the noun shin + -y2.
shinny
noun
• an informal form of ice hockey played especially by children, on the street or on ice, often with a ball or other object in place of a puck.
• "we used to play shinny on the canal with tin cans"
Origin:
variant of shinty.
