spinny
English
Noun
spinny (plural spinnies)
- Alternative spelling of spinney
- 1857, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in Two Years Ago, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:
- The downs rise steep, crowned with black fir spinnies.
Adjective
spinny (comparative spinnier, superlative spinniest)
- (informal) 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.”
- 2003, Ian S. Ginns, Stephen J. Norton, Campbell J. McRobbie, “Adding Value to the Teaching and Learning of Design and Technology”, in Pupils [sic] Attitudes Towards Technology Annual Conference June 2003, pages 115–118:
- “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)."
- 2006, J Purkis, Finding a Different Kind of Normal: Misadventures with Asperger Syndrome:
- Then you got a double whammy - your eyes were full of orange and your head was spinny and dizzy.
- 1997, DAN Seemiller, M Holowchak, Winning Table Tennis: Skills, Drills, and Strategies - all 3 versions »
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