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shiny

adj
/ˈʃaɪ.ni/

Etymology

Contraction of "shiny arse", originated during World War II. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mAdUqLrKw4YC&pg=PA1717

  1. inherited from *skainijaną✻
  2. inherited from scǣnan — “to render brilliant, make shine”
  3. inherited from schenen
  4. derived from scīn — “brightness, shine”
  5. derived from schinen
  6. formed as shiny — “shine + -y”

Definitions

  1. Reflecting light.

    • He was wearing a new, fawn-coloured summer suit and a new straw hat—his trousers the creasiest and his shoes the shiniest. Yet he seemed not to be taking the usual infantile satisfaction in a very smart, correct costume.
    • Commercially produced yarn, such as rayon, produces a cloth with a smoother, shinier look than hand-spun cotton, but the uneven, rugged look of hand-spun cotton can be quite appealing.

  2. Emitting light.

  3. Excellent

    Excellent; remarkable.

    • We're shiny, Okay?
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Bright

      Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.

      • Like distant thunder on a shiny day.
      • When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire Full well I served my master for nigh on seven years Till I took up to poaching as you shall quickly hear Oh, 'tis my delight on a shiny night in the season of the year.

    2. Anything that glitters

      Anything that glitters; a trinket.

    3. A desirable collectible.

    4. A deskworker.

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Derived

bite my shiny metal ass, bright shiny object, nonshiny, shinily, shininess, shiny bum, shiny cowbird, shiny-floor, shinyleaf, subshiny, unshiny

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at shiny. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01shiny02emitting03emit04come05manifest06distinctly07distinct08clearly09clear10bright

A definitional loop anchored at shiny. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at shiny

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA