shiner
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8.2
- noun
- /ˈʃaɪnər/
- Informal
:
ojo morado
- How did you get that shiner on your eye?
- get a shiner
- nice shiner
- bad shiner
Examples
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Her left eye's got a nice purple shiner.
Fiction book (1998) -
I could also see that she had a shiner on her right eye that was beginning to turn yellow.
Academic text (2009) -
You got yourself quite a shiner there.
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Is that where you got the shiner?
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I got a shiner and a broken nose, too.
Fiction book (1994) -
How did she get that shiner?
Fiction book (1998) -
I think you're gonna have a shiner, Jeff.
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Who gave Rusti the shiner?
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She's sitting on the porch with her father-in-law and young child, drinking Bud Ice and showing a major shiner around her left eye.
Blog text (25) -
He walked into the room with a black eye, looking embarrassed about the shiner he got during a fight.
Synonyms
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1.6
A dark area on the skin that appears after a hit
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2.3
A dark swollen bruise around the eye caused by a hit
11
9.9
A swollen bruise under the eye from a hit
Compounds
A small silvery freshwater fish found in streams and rivers in eastern North America
A small freshwater fish with a blunt nose and bright green colour found in North American lakes and rivers
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Shiner is a slang name that people link to the verb shine ('to be bright') as a helpful way to remember it: a fresh bruise or black eye can look like a dark, glossy spot. That's why people call a black eye a 'shiner'.