Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, containing, or yielding tin.
- adjective Tasting or smelling of tin.
- adjective Having a thin metallic sound.
- adjective Weak or thin; flimsy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or relating to tin; containing tin; resembling tin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to or resembling
tin . - adjective Pertaining to the thinness and cheapness of tin or similar-looking metals, in contrast to a heavier, more valuable metal.
- adjective Pertaining to a thin, unpleasant sound recalling that of tin being rapped.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of very poor quality; flimsy
- adjective of or containing tin
- adjective thin and metallic in sound; lacking resonance
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Examples
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"Speed and cannabis are available at what are commonly known as a tinny houses and we impact on the drug market by targeting those tinny houses."
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"Speed and cannabis are available at what are commonly known as a tinny houses and we impact on the drug market by targeting those tinny houses."
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"Speed and cannabis are available at what are commonly known as a tinny houses and we impact on the drug market by targeting those tinny houses."
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We have rented a flat in Cannaregio in late April and have no idea about laws as to mooring, but even to rent a dinghy (aka a tinny where I come from) for a day would be bliss.
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The quality of Buck's voice, which can be described as tinny, raspy, kind of like he has a piece of sandpaper caught in his throat, has not affected the content of his play-by-play stylings.
NY Daily News Bob Raissman 2011
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Turning it off makes the music almost tinny, which is odd. boo i thought we were going to see a video of some one going base jumping haha
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If Fonseka who seems keen to craft militarism into his campaign, demonstrated what can only be called tinny headed thinking in his reference to a tin-pot dictatorship in Sri Lanka, he has shown that his knowledge of the record of great military leaders of the recent past is vastly lacking in accuracy, as is his knowledge of history.
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If Fonseka who seems keen to craft militarism into his campaign, demonstrated what can only be called tinny headed thinking in his reference to a tin-pot dictatorship in Sri Lanka, he has shown that his knowledge of the record of great military leaders of the recent past is vastly lacking in accuracy, as is his knowledge of history.
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The American characters are rather "tinny" in the book, but they could have easily have been English, were it still colonial times.
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He smelled kind of tinny like metal, like men smell.
Stanley Tookie Williams, a pathological liar and primordial dwarf Melissa Ann Chadburn 2010
john commented on the word tinny
January 22, 2008
bilby commented on the word tinny
See citation on tinnie. Not to mention the wonderful-sounding Mooney Mooney Workers Club.
June 24, 2009
sionnach commented on the word tinny
Damn! John already beat me to it.
November 27, 2009
Telofy commented on the word tinny
See also my tags “tinny” and “woody”.
November 27, 2009