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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(sports, uncountable) A game derived from hurling, and resembling hockey, played in Scotland..
Shinty, once a battle royal between villages, is still a far tougher game than hockey, its nearest Sassenach equivalent.
To the city's large population of Highlanders, it was a portal to home, a place where you could speak Gaelic and sing it, buy tickets to the Glasgow Skye Association's annual dance, squabble about shinty arrange a lift to Ullapool, read the classifieds in the West Highland Free Press.
Use shinty when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shinty means (sports, uncountable) A game derived from hurling, and resembling hockey, played in Scotland..
Common synonyms include camanachd, caman.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Shinty, once a battle royal between villages, is still a far tougher game than hockey, its nearest Sassenach equivalent.
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