Spinny

From Latin spina.

Full definition of spinny

Noun

1. Alternative spelling of spinney
• Charles KingsleyThe downs rise steep, crowned with black fir spinnies.

spin + -y

Adjective

1. (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, and Campbell J. McRobbie, "Adding Value to the Teaching and Learning of Design and Technology", in Pupils Attitudes Towards Technology Annual Conference June 2003, p 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 SyndromeThen you got a double whammy - your eyes were full of orange and your head was spinny and dizzy.

Compare spiny.

Adjective

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) thin and long; slim; slender