spinny
nounEtymology
From Latin spīnētum.
- inherited from *(s)penh₁-✻
- inherited from *spinnaną✻
- inherited from spinnan
- inherited from spinnen
Definitions
Alternative spelling of spinney (“small copse or wood”).
- The downs rise steep, crowned with black fir spinnies.
Associated with spinning
Associated with spinning; moving with a spinning motion.
- 1997, DAN Seemiller, M Holowchak, Winning Table Tennis: Skills, Drills, and Strategies - all 3 versions » The sound at contact should be solid and crisp, not “spinny.”
- “It is a spinny thing with wires in it, with the wires wrapped around something (coil) and N and S (unsure what N and S were)."
- Then you got a double whammy - your eyes were full of orange and your head was spinny and dizzy.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for spinny. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA