shin
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Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English schyne, from Old English scinu, from Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene. Not related to skin.
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shin (plural shins)
- The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Synonym: tibia
- A fishplate for a railway[1]
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front part of the leg below the knee
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shin (third-person singular simple present shins, present participle shinning, simple past and past participle shinned)
- (British, as "shin up") To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.
- Synonym: shinny (US)
- to shin up a mast
- To strike with the shin.
- 2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC[1]:
- The warning signs had been there as Peter Cech had already had to palm away a stinging shot from Ronald Zubar but immediately afterwards the Blues goalkeeper could only watch in horror as defender Boswinga shinned the ball into his own net from Hunt's corner.
- (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
- 1845 December 13, New York Commercial Advertiser:
- The Senator was shinning around, to get gold for the rascally bank-rags which he was obliged to take.
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(UK) to climb a mast, tree, rope
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shin (plural shins)
- The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Semitic letter
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- Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References edit
- ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Shin”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC..
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shin
- H-system spelling of ŝin
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shin f
- shin (letter of the Arabic alphabet)
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shin
- Lenited form of sin.
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shin
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shin
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- Goldberg, Justin, Asadik, Habte, Bekama, Jiregna, Mengistu, Mulat (2016) Gwama – English Dictionary[2], SIL International
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Inherited from French chien (“dog”).
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shin
- (a) dog
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shin (emphatic shinyn)
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shin
- (colloquial) Lenited form of sin.