shin
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]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.
Noun
[edit]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
- Soccer players have to wear protective gear so they don't injure their shins.
- A fishplate for a railway[1]
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]front part of the leg below the knee
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Verb
[edit]shin (third-person singular simple present shins, present participle shinning, simple past and past participle shinned)
- To climb up or lower oneself down 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
- 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 33:
- "The minute the door is shut he shins down a water-pipe, hops on his motor-cycle, and is off at full speed."
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit](UK) to climb a mast, tree, rope
Etymology 2
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]shin (plural shins)
- The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Translations
[edit]Semitic letter
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- 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..
Anagrams
[edit]Esperanto
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]shin
- H-system spelling of ŝin
Hausa
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]shin f
- shin (letter of the Arabic alphabet)
Irish
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]shin
Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]shin
Kwama
[edit]Noun
[edit]shin
References
[edit]- Goldberg, Justin, Asadik, Habte, Bekama, Jiregna, Mengistu, Mulat (2016) Gwama – English Dictionary[2], SIL International
Louisiana Creole
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from French chien (“dog”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]shin
- (a) dog
Manx
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]shin (emphatic shinyn)
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]shin
- (colloquial) Lenited form of sin.
Uzbek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic شِين (šīn).
Noun
[edit]shin (plural shinlar)
- the Arabic letter ش
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | shin | shinlar |
| genitive | shinning | shinlarning |
| dative | shinga | shinlarga |
| definite accusative | shinni | shinlarni |
| locative | shinda | shinlarda |
| ablative | shindan | shinlardan |
| similative | shindek | shinlardek |
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