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(UK) A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds..
“H'm !" he said, "so, so — it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what […] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”
I've never hunted myself, but I understand that half the battle is being able to make noises like some jungle animal with dyspepsia, and I believe that Aunt Dahlia in her prime could lift fellow-members of the Quorn and Pytchley out of their saddles with a single yip, though separated from them by two ploughed fields and a spinney.
Freda, the German undermatron, once discovered him sunbathing nude in the spinney.
Use spinney when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Spinney means (UK) A small copse or wood, especially one planted as a shelter for game birds..
Common synonyms include spinnaker.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
“H'm !" he said, "so, so — it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what […] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”
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