单词 | shinny hockey |
释义 | > as lemmasshinny hockey North American (originally Canadian). A simple or informal game of ice hockey, esp. one played outdoors. Also attributive, esp. in shinny hockey. ΚΠ 1847 in Origin Hockey in Canada (1942) 2 Most of the soldier boys were quite at home on skates. They could cut the figure eight and other fancy figures, but ‘shinny’ was their great delight. 1895 J. M. Oxley My Strange Rescue 341 As first played in Canada, hockey went by various names, some of which were apparently merely local—hurley, shinny, rickets, and so forth. It was played only upon the ice in winter-time, and there was not much pretence to rules. 1927 Nashua (Iowa) Reporter 2 Feb. The way to become a whirlwind hockey player..or a breath-taking fancy skater..is to get out and play shinny. 1964 Star Weekly (Toronto) 5 Dec. 21/1 No shinny stuff for these boys..taught in big league style by Richard Caouette. 1990 Sports Illustr. 8 Oct. 18/2 Today the sport's bucolic roots are reflected in the term shinny hockey, the informal version of the game in which anything handy—a chunk of wood, a shard of ice, a clod of frozen horseplop—will serve as the smackable center of attention. < as lemmas |
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