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linny

linny is the alternative form of linhay.

Meaning of linhay

Noun

linhay (plural linhays)

  1. (dialectal, south-west UK) A shed or other outbuilding, originally open-fronted with a hay loft.
    • Home-side of the linhay, and under the ashen hedge-row, where father taught me to catch blackbirds, all at once my heart went down, and all my breast was hollow.1869, R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, section III

Proper noun capitalized: Linny

Linny

  1. (slang) The ship of characters Luna Lovegood and Ginny Weasley from Harry Potter.

Forms of linny

plurallinnies

Origin of linny

Blend of Luna + Ginny.

Questions about linny

What does linny mean?
Linny means the ship of characters Luna Lovegood and Ginny Weasley from Harry Potter.
What is linny the alternative form of?
Linny is the alternative form of linhay.
What part of speech is linny?
Linny is a proper noun.

Words near linny in the dictionary

  1. linning
  2. linnorm
  3. linnorms
  4. linnow
  5. linns
  6. linny
  7. Linnæan
  8. Linné
  9. lino
  10. linoblock
  11. linoblocks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: linny (page history and authors); Linny (page history and authors); linhay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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