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Definition of Shannies
1. shanny [n] - See also: shanny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shannies
Literary usage of Shannies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"... true shore-fishes like sand-eels and gunnels and shannies; an occasional
reptile like the lizard Amblyrhynchus which swims out among the rocks, ..."
2. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"... buried all but their mouth in the fine sand; true shore-fishes like sand-eels
and gunnels and shannies; an occasional reptile like the lizard ..."
3. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"On a narrow spit of sand between the rocks a dozen little girls are laughing,
romping, and pattering about, turning the stones for " shannies" and " buff ..."
4. Animal Life and Intelligence by Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1891)
"... the fishes concerned, including shannies, flat-fish, cod, rockling, and others,
have a sense of taste leading them to reject these molluscs as nasty. ..."
5. Animal Life and Intelligence by Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1891)
"... the fishes concerned, including shannies, flat-fish, cod, rockling, and others,
have a sense of taste leading them to reject these molluscs as nasty. ..."
6. Novels, Poems and Letters of Charles Kingsley by Charles Kingsley (1899)
"... a dozen little girls are laughing, romping, and pattering about, turning the
stones for " shannies " and " bullies," and other luckless fish left by the ..."
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