shiny

Etymology

shine + -y

adj

  1. Reflecting light.
    Bender: Bite my shiny metal ass! Futurama
  2. Emitting light.
  3. (colloquial) Excellent; remarkable.
    We're shiny, Okay? 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, page 132
  4. (obsolete) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
    Like distant thunder on a shiny day. 1665, John Dryden, Verses to her Royal Highness the Duchess [of York]
    When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire Full well I served my master for nigh on seven years Till I took up to poaching as you shall quickly hear Oh, 'tis my delight on a shiny night in the season of the year. The Lincolnshire Poacher (traditional song)

noun

  1. (informal) Anything shiny; a trinket.
  2. (slang) 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

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