Shinny

Shin (noun) + -y.

Full definition of shinny

Verb

1. To climb in an awkward manner.

Variation of shinty.

Noun

1. (Canada) An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.
• 2010, Jason Blake, Canadian Hockey Literature: A Thematic Study, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 9780802099846 (cloth-bound), ISBN 9780802097132 (paperback), chapter two: “The Hockey Dream: Hockey as Escape, Freedom, Utopia”, page 63:In shinny, everyone wins. Though rules are scaled back, the game is not loosened beyond all form, and the driving competitive element remains.
• ibidem, page 70:Hockey fiction shows that the focus on ludus in organized hockey threatens to strangle the primal play spirit, which is why shinny is more easily romanticized than versions of the game that seem to require fighting, that motivate parents to violence, and, at the highest level, give rise to lockouts and strikes. In shinny the playful core of hockey is retained, while the overly confining rules and restrictions are discarded.
2. (Canada) Street hockey.
3. (Canada, informal) Hockey.

Noun

1. Moonshine (illegal alcohol)
• 1960, Harper Lee, , chapter 13,Miss Maudie Atkinson baked a Lane cake so loaded with shinny it made me tight;....
• Ibid.,He sent them packing next day armed with their charts and five quarts of shinny in their saddlebags—two apiece and one for the Governor.