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spiny en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈspaɪni/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From spine + -y.

Meanings

  1. Covered in spines or thorns.
  2. Troublesome; difficult or vexing.
    • The spiney desarts of scholastic philosophy 1727, William Warburton, Critical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Causes of Miracles:
  3. Like a spine in shape; slender.
    • And, as in well-growne woods, on trees, cold ſpinie Graſhoppers / Sit chirping, […] [1611?], Homer, “The Third Booke of Homers Iliads”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, page 40:

Forms

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spiniest Degree=Sup lexicographic
spinier Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Coordinates

smooth · silky · bristly · hispid

Deriveds

spinyhead · Neotropical spiny rat · spiny cocklebur · spiny hopsage · spiny-cheeked honeyeater · spiny broom · spiny mouse · spiny bamboo · spininess · spiny softshell turtle · spiny pocket mouse · spiny-headed worm · spiny lobster · graphic spiny lizard · spiny rat · unspiny · spiny eel · spiny tubeworm · subspiny · spiny-tailed lizard · spiny murex · spinily · aspiny · spiny dogfish · Texas spiny lizard · spiny bear's breech · medium spiny neuron · nonspiny · spiny shark · spiny spider crab · spiny lizard · spiny coriander · spiny-cheek sleeper · spiny oyster · spiny projection neuron · spiny anteater · Solomon Island spiny monitor · spiny seahorse

Synonyms

thorny (troublesome) · prickly (troublesome) · prickly (covered in spines) · thorny (covered in spines)

Translations (10)

mi tuatete (covered in prickles) · bg бодлив (covered in prickles) · hi कटीला (covered in prickles) · fr piquant (covered in prickles) · la spinifer (covered in prickles) · cs ostnatý (covered in prickles) · cs trnitý (covered in prickles) · mi pūtaratara (covered in prickles) · fi okainen (covered in prickles) · cs bodlinatý (covered in prickles)

spiny en · NOUN · etymology 2

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, archaic) Archaic form of spinney.
    alt of spinney

Forms

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spinies Number=Plur lexicographic