shiny
IPA: ʃˈaɪni
noun
- (informal) Anything shiny; a trinket.
- (slang) Contraction of disparaging term "shiny arses", originating during World War Two, to describe a desk worker.https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mAdUqLrKw4YC&pg=PA1717
adjective
- Reflecting light.
- Emitting light.
- (colloquial) Excellent; remarkable.
- (obsolete) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
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Examples of "shiny" in Sentences
- It was wrapped in shiny, green paper with a purple bow.
- Water transformed it, turning cracked gray skin shiny new.
- When she opened the handbag, she found $200 in shiny bills in the bag.
- We don't need to demonize it outright, but it doesn't make sense to glorify it in "shiny" ways either.
- I think I've asked for it before, but I can't find it anywhere; it's like a frickin 'shiny Celebi or something.
- "They're buying what they call shiny, bright ornaments because that's what the 40 and 50-year-old people, their grandma had them."
- We are now seen as the turn up in shiny cars and do a bit of ANPR police force (making sure we a bloody sign out 1st telling everyone we are doing it)
- Cram's old firm is producing churches again, and the likes of Arthur Brown and John Russell Pope are all over the bookshelves in shiny new monographs if one at least finds the right shelf or noodles around online.
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