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词汇 spinney
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Definition of spinney in English:

spinney

nounPlural spinneys ˈspɪniˈspɪni
British
  • A small area of trees and bushes.

    〈英〉灌木丛,矮林

    Example sentencesExamples
    • My mum and dad sold the old farmhouse to a young, retired businessman from the South, and built a new home in the old spinney.
    • The club has spent wisely on the course recently in reshaping the fairways, re-designing bunkers and spinneys and treating the fairways and greens.
    • A site was chosen near the college focus overlooking a south-facing meadow that slopes down to a spinney, and three new three-storey blocks have been created at the top of the rise.
    • It has panoramic views of the golf course and is nestled in a spinney just off Leigh Road.
    • And think of the features that make our landscape so gorgeously English: the hedgerows, drystone walls and the shady copses and spinneys punctuating the expanses of green.
    • Tee boxes have been enlarged, new bunkers built, and spinneys cleaned and made more user friendly!
    • To the back of the house is a wood, parkland and spinney.
    • At daybreak they lay up together in a place she showed him deep within a spinney.
    Synonyms
    forest, woodland, trees

Origin

Late 16th century: shortening of Old French espinei, from an alteration of Latin spinetum 'thicket', from spina 'thorn'.

Rhymes

blini, cine, Finney, finny, Ginny, guinea, hinny, mini, Minnie, ninny, pinny, Pliny, shinny, skinny, tinny, whinny

Definition of spinney in US English:

spinney

nounˈspɪniˈspinē
British
  • A small area of trees and bushes.

    〈英〉灌木丛,矮林

    Example sentencesExamples
    • To the back of the house is a wood, parkland and spinney.
    • And think of the features that make our landscape so gorgeously English: the hedgerows, drystone walls and the shady copses and spinneys punctuating the expanses of green.
    • It has panoramic views of the golf course and is nestled in a spinney just off Leigh Road.
    • A site was chosen near the college focus overlooking a south-facing meadow that slopes down to a spinney, and three new three-storey blocks have been created at the top of the rise.
    • At daybreak they lay up together in a place she showed him deep within a spinney.
    • My mum and dad sold the old farmhouse to a young, retired businessman from the South, and built a new home in the old spinney.
    • The club has spent wisely on the course recently in reshaping the fairways, re-designing bunkers and spinneys and treating the fairways and greens.
    • Tee boxes have been enlarged, new bunkers built, and spinneys cleaned and made more user friendly!
    Synonyms
    forest, woodland, trees

Origin

Late 16th century: shortening of Old French espinei, from an alteration of Latin spinetum ‘thicket’, from spina ‘thorn’.

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