shiny
nounEtymology From shine + -y (noun suffix).
1
Informal Anything that glitters; a trinket.
2
Video games A desirable collectible.
shiny
adj/ˈʃaɪ.ni/
Etymology From shine + -y (adjectival suffix).
1
Reflecting light.
- He was wearing a new, fawn-coloured summer suit and a new straw hat—his trousers the creasiest and his shoes the shiniest. Yet he seemed not to be taking the usual infantile satisfaction in a very smart, correct costume.1920, Will Payne, The Scarred Chin, page 130:
- Commercially produced yarn, such as rayon, produces a cloth with a smoother, shinier look than hand-spun cotton, but the uneven, rugged look of hand-spun cotton can be quite appealing.2011, Ronke Luke-Boone, African Fabrics: Sewing Contemporary Fashion with Ethic Flair:
2
Emitting light.
3
Colloquial Excellent; remarkable.
- We're shiny, Okay?2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 132:
4
Obsolete Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
- Like distant thunder on a shiny day.1665, John Dryden, Verses to her Royal Highness the Duchess [of York]:
- When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire Full well I served my master for nigh on seven years Till I took up to poaching as you shall quickly hear Oh, 'tis my delight on a shiny night in the season of the year.The Lincolnshire Poacher (traditional song)
- Derived terms
- bite my shiny metal ass, bright shiny object, nonshiny, shalpha, shinily, shininess, shiny bum, shiny cowbird, shiny-floor, shinyleaf, subshiny, unshiny
- Hypernyms
- reflective
- Hyponyms
- glossy, silvered, retroreflective