spiny
See also: špíny
English
Etymology
spine + -y
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspaɪni/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -aɪni
Adjective
spiny (comparative spinier, superlative spiniest)
- Covered in spines or thorns
- Troublesome; difficult or vexing
- 1727, William Warburton, Critical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Causes of Miracles
- The spiney desarts of scholastic philosophy
- 1727, William Warburton, Critical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Causes of Miracles
- 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 614803194; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], volume (please specify the book number), new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, OCLC 987451361:
- Spiny grasshoppers sit chirping.
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Synonyms
- (covered in spines): thorny, prickly
- (troublesome): thorny, prickly
Translations
covered in prickles
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Noun
spiny (plural spinies)
- Archaic form of spinny.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spiny in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Related terms
- spine
Anagrams
- Pin@ys, nipsy, snipy
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspi.nɨ/
- Rhymes: -inɨ
- Syllabification: spi‧ny
Noun
spiny f
- inflection of spina:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Noun
spiny m
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of spin