🌀 Dizzy or spinning 🌳 A small wood

spinny

1 9.8

A small area of trees and bushes

noun

: matorral

You can't do a spinny kick.

Examples

Meet me at "Hunter's Spinny", next Sunday, same time as now.

Gone to Earth (1950)
Yeah, it's the spinny ride with lights and horses.

Toy Story 4 (2019)
If I be to go down to "Hunter's Spinny..."

Gone to Earth (1950)
The signs said to go down to "Hunter's Spinny."

Gone to Earth (1950)
Who cried in "Hunter's Spinny" ? -

Gone to Earth (1950)
Patch left a voicemail with Spinny and will update this story if she decides to comment.

Blog text (25)
Super spinny.

Central Intelligence (2016)
"Hunter's Spinny"!

Gone to Earth (1950)
We found a cozy spot to have a picnic in the small spinny at the edge of the field.
Birds often nest in the dense undergrowth of the spinny during springtime.

Synonyms

spinney

vsspinny

Archaic

9.9

A small group of trees and bushes that shelter birds and small animals

focuses on countryside location rather than on sheltering wildlife

bosket

vsspinny

Archaic

9.9

A small group of trees growing close together

often refers specifically to a small rural wood

How Big

forest

970 1.0

wood

835 1.0

spinny

1 9.8

copse

3 7.5

Surface Forms

spinny singular

spinnies plural

Etymology

Spinny (a small wood) comes from an old word like spina meaning 'thorn'. A helpful way to remember this is that a spinny was often a place of thorn bushes, so it means a little wood or thicket of trees and bushes.