shinned
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of shin.
He shinned up the drainpipe to reach the open second-floor window.
The thief had shinned over the garden wall before anyone noticed.
Note
The doubled n follows the usual spelling rule for a short-voweled verb ending in a single consonant, so shin gives shinned rather than shined, which belongs to shine. Followed by up or down, it is the climbing verb: she shinned down the rope. The same form also covers striking someone with the shin, and the US slang sense of running about borrowing money to meet a payment.
shinned is a form of shin
shin, verb: To climb up or lower yourself down a mast, tree, or rope by gripping it with the arms and legs, without steps or spurs. Full entry
- Spelling
- shin → shinned: double the n, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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