spiny

spine +‎ -y

• IPA^(key): /ˈspaɪni/

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• Rhymes: -aɪni

spiny (comparative spinier, superlative spiniest)

1. Covered in spines or thorns.
2. Troublesome; difficult or vexing
   • 1727, William Warburton, Critical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Causes of Miracles:

     The spiney desarts of scholastic philosophy

3. Like a spine in shape; slender.
   • [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volumes (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:

     Spiny grasshoppers sit chirping.

     The spelling has been modernized.

• (covered in spines): thorny, prickly
• (troublesome): thorny, prickly

spiny (plural spinies)

1. Archaic form of spinny.

• “spiny”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Pin@ys, nipsy, snipy

• IPA^(key): /ˈspi.nɨ/
• Rhymes: -inɨ
• Syllabification: spi‧ny

spiny f

1. inflection of spina:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

spiny m

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of spin