What's the difference between minny and tinny?

Minny


Definition:

  • (n.) A minnow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For services to Elderly People through the Minnie Bennett Sheltered Accommodation Home for the Elderly in Greenwich South East London.
  • (2) Yet the proprietors, Minnie, Sweet Dave and her other colleagues, are nowhere to be found.
  • (3) August 11, 2014 Minnie Driver, who also starred in Good Will Hunting, tweeted her own tribute, along with a link to Williams’ acceptance speech for best supporting actor.
  • (4) Down at Abereiddy beach, we met our guide, Jethro, and a small group of potential coasteerers, plus, to Maddy's particular delight, Bea and Minnie.
  • (5) You can cycle this route , too: hire bikes from Viking Coastal Trail Cycle Hire (07772 037609, The Parade, Minnis Bay) at the start of the route.
  • (6) They arrived in Bristol with their daughter Minnie in the late 1880s.
  • (7) "Oh look," I observed slyly, "Minnie's done it and is climbing out."
  • (8) We’ve raised enough money to pay for all the children and their parents to get a meal, each child will get a gift from Santa Claus and there will be a chance to meet Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and the characters from the film Frozen.
  • (9) Born 1 April 1966 in Warrington, the youngest of three siblings, to Martin Evans, a sometime bookmaker, and Minnie Beardsell, manager of a corner shop.
  • (10) The second of these had been funded by the sale of three paintings to Marsh, but long before it appeared in April 1915 Rosenberg had realised he would be unable to earn his living by either his poetry or his painting and had gone to stay with his eldest sister, Minnie, in South Africa.
  • (11) I have a dog I got at the Battersea Dogs Home - Minnie - and now I have a year old dog called Boston.
  • (12) This might be why, after Good Will Hunting's Minnie Driver and Matt Damon broke up, rumours circulated that Driver and Smith were an item.
  • (13) The woman who bought the name did not respond to the Guardian's inquiries on Thursday, but she also appears to have snapped up the rights to name a low front Minnie later in the year .
  • (14) In one of the photographs, Abdul Waheed Majeed, 41, from Crawley, West Sussex, is seen wearing Minnie Mouse ears while he cuddles a girl and in another he kneels as children around him give the peace sign.
  • (15) Minnie has one A*, five As and four Bs, while Tallulah scored one A*, five As, three Bs and one C. Minnie, who will study RE, drama, film studies and sociology, said: "The exams were not easy but they were less stressful than the revision.
  • (16) Ornaments from home decorate the wall behind the sofa in the living room, next to a pink Minnie Mouse stuffed toy nestled inside a cot.
  • (17) The boycott threat was delivered as Sawiris, a Coptic Christian from the country's wealthiest family, was told he faces trial for blasphemy over an online cartoon he tweeted from his account last June depicting Mickey Mouse with an Islamic beard and a veiled Minnie Mouse.
  • (18) Tarantino opens with a lengthy sequence in a stagecoach as it tries to beat an incoming blizzard to the nearest shelter, Minnie's Haberdashery.
  • (19) "That's all me, baby – I drank a lot of coffee that day," she trills in her Minnie Mouse-ish voice, halfway between a giggle and a gurgle.
  • (20) As Jeremy Paxman, another moaning minnie, said of the BBC: "The worst thing you can be in this industry now is a middle-class white male."

Tinny


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Everything he sang about is still true today," said Oluwole, a taxi driver waiting for petrol as a tape played Fela on a tinny loop.
  • (2) ‘W e voted for you to go home.” Those were the words flung at 34-year-old Tinni Guha Roy, a former member of the GB rowing team, on a London train in the aftermath of Britain’s EU referendum.
  • (3) Then he broke down, his voice audibly cracking across the tinniness of the loudspeaker.
  • (4) Tinny iPhone powered, accompanied renditions of Flower of Scotland and the Proclaimers on a loop (my request for the Krankies' Fandabidozi for some themed relief went ignored).
  • (5) No more does British public transport throb to the strains of LMFAO's Sexy and I Know It , played on the tinny mobiles of hooded young men.
  • (6) Mick Jones from the Clash was Grant's cousin, and we'd blast his tapes from the tinny stereo, singing along to the words while debating the sentiment.
  • (7) But it simply underlined how incredibly tinny they were as candidates.
  • (8) In my opinion, it has a dry, tinny, bitter aftertaste.
  • (9) Labor always rejected concerns by the fishing industry that it was "locking up oceans", saying less than 2% of commercial fisheries' catches would be affected by the new protected areas and recreational fishers would not be affected at all because the parks were hundreds of kilometres offshore and therefore well out of reach of a fisherman in a tinnie.
  • (10) On the shore you’ll see a few people drinking tinnies and fishing with their mates, and you think ‘who’s happier here?’” Perhaps because of this, relations between crew and guests are unusual, if not unheard of.
  • (11) From time to time, Syrova's words were punctuated by tinny clinks from the women's handcuffs as they crossed and uncrossed their arms.
  • (12) The famously good Congolese music is everywhere, from the throbbing clubs of the Matonge district to the tinny transistor radios of people in the street.
  • (13) The bullets sounded tinny and distant, like in an old arcade game.
  • (14) "The thrill," said one, whose first download was by Smashing Pumpkins, "even when I listened to the music through my mum's tinny computer speakers."
  • (15) Their relationship has played out in the press as a tinny, 21st-century retread of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton – the Hollywood insider and the Welsh upstart, with the gender roles reversed.
  • (16) The first, very serious score was replaced by tinny, faux-heroic music, which made the film funny again.
  • (17) Under the tinny roof of Songkhla’s commercial port, on Thailand’s south-east coast, the imperial-blue cargo boat that brought Myint Thein back to shore is unloading its catch, barrel by barrel.
  • (18) John Grant (Gary Bond), a cultured schoolteacher travelling from his isolated bush schoolhouse to Sydney, gets trapped on a stopover that turns into a never-ending alcoholic bender in a wild outback mining town populated entirely by drunken ockers who gamble, guzzle tinnies, fist-fight and hunt kangaroos for sport.
  • (19) The execution of the film, too, is a world away from the DayGlo tinniness of most 1980s family films.
  • (20) The novel is also a vehicle for much insiderish fun: drive-by shootings at the editor of the New Statesman Jason Cowley (who becomes a type of car, “slick, tinny, and noisy”); Private Eye editor Ian Hislop (who, given that he went to court to reveal a super-injunction Marr had used to hide his affair with another political journalist, gets nicer treatment than one might expect), is “earnestly and very solemnly working his way through a huge cream cake”.

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