shinty

English

Etymology

Unknown

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪnti

Noun

shinty (countable and uncountable, plural shinties)

1. (sports, uncountable) A game derived from hurling, and resembling hockey, played in Scotland.

   Synonym: camanachd

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 156:

     To the city's large population of Highlanders, it was a portal to home, a place where you could speak Gaelic and sing it, buy tickets to the Glasgow Skye Association's annual dance, squabble about shinty arrange a lift to Ullapool, read the classifieds in the West Highland Free Press.

2. (sports, countable) The stick used to strike the ball in this game, similar to a hockey stick.

   Synonym: caman

References

• The Camanachd Association

Anagrams

• snithy