noun
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Anything shiny; a trinket.
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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
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Reflecting light.
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Emitting light.
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Excellent; remarkable.
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Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
Examples of shiny in a Sentence
It was dark, shiny, thick and long.
Finally her efforts resulted in something shiny coming out.
Even the way she wore her hair, with those braids wrapped around the top of her head like a crown and the long shiny blond curls falling around her shoulders and down her back – she wasn't simply beautiful.
He shoved a shiny red object at her.
Wherever the shiny little blue car had gone, it had nothing to do with her.
They are usually much dreaded by country people, and although they are quite harmless to man, the large glands which are disposed very regularly on their smooth, shiny bodies, secrete a very active, milky poison which protects them from the attacks of many enemies.
The body is smooth and shiny, with vertical grooves on the sides, the tail is but feebly compressed, the eye is moderately large and provided with movable lids, and the upper lip is nearly straight.
The body is elongated, and the hair, especially on the tail, short, shiny and close.
The leathery coils of its shiny body lay in a heap, stacked at least three tiers high.
It occurs in shiny reddish lumps, resembling the commoner kinds of gum arabic. With water, in which it is only partially soluble, it forms a thick mucilage.
He shoots great somewhat it would particularly shiny metal.
John is the one with the shiny purple helmet.
Rudolf the red nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose!
Turning the stone over, the obverse side showed a delicate trace of leaves; shiny black against the gray shale.
They are always so shiny and new looking when you take them out of their boxes.
The buggy seemed almost new, for it had a shiny top and side curtains.
One side has a label and the other side has a shiny surface.
I didn't get to first base but you've got a spiffy uniform and a shiny badge.
A shelf with shiny brass rails curving around the aft cabin.
Even places that looked new and shiny when I first saw them are now looking a bit grim after a quarter century of neglect.
They were steeper and narrower than he had expected and he was grateful for the shiny brass handrails on either side.
The 31st floor contains what looks like shiny metal hubcaps.
Colobus monkeys have long, smooth, shiny fur all over their body.
The Mods, with their fishtail parkas, fitted suits, perfect hair and shiny scooters have congregated at the Marquee nightclub.
It's a pity about the hair tho - neither shiny pates nor wigs seem to work.
She was half way round, it was the girl out of the shiny horse box riding a black pony.
The sum of these two coefficients is always one. a+r = 1 Light colored smooth and shiny surfaces tend to have a higher reflectance.
The bike is a bit too shiny, tho, and the rider is way too shiny.
Car looks really shiny in... Welcome to the forum.
They are not shiny clean like 3-D computer animations.
Sebaceous glands secrete sebum that keeps the hair shiny and waterproof to some extent.
You see something shiny and think maybe you could go get it, so off you wander.
The only coins I had were two shiny pennies.
Now that you are hopefully working with a healthy, shiny mane, start this styling routine with a good quality shampoo, preferably a formula designed for normal hair.
But the odd little brick dimple here or a shiny stainless steel flue there are inadequate.
A Very nice looking white color fan with the shiny stainless steel fan grill.
Its shell no longer had the cool texture of skin but had become shiny, slick, and coated with heat.
In a short time the black toner will go shiny.
All soldered joints should appear shiny as in the picture below.
It had gypsum plaster and Artex applied to the walls with a shiny vinyl silk emulsion over the top.
The main outer edges of the album are finished in shiny silver and has a flower design within the four corners of the album.
All of her friends said how lucky she was and how they wished the little folk would leave them a shiny sixpence.
Unlike the Presbyterian minister, he does not usually add solemnity to the occasion by wearing a shiny lum hat!
The oil pump itself is hidden behind the large shiny sprocket.
For interest, the shiny external cladding is not stainless steel.
The house is adorned with shiny tinsel hanging from every available corner and twinkling lights have sent your electricity bill soaring.
Another bright red toadstool is a conical shiny Wax Cap, growing in old grassland.
Others with shirts tucked in tight, thrust into smart trousers, hidden under shiny belt buckles.
The sole difference was that the seed is bright and shiny, whilst the mouse turd is matt.
She had always resisted the petty tyranny of the kitchen, its perfect order and shiny regimen, the confusing array of spices.