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Tinney

Tinney proper noun: a surname from Irish.

Proper noun

Tinney (countable and uncountable, plural Tinneys)

  1. A surname from Irish.
  2. An unincorporated community in Sandusky County, Ohio, United States.

Forms of Tinney

pluralTinneys

Origin of Tinney

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó tSionnaigh (“descendant of Sionnach”), a personal name based on sionnach (“fox”). Compare Shinnick.

Questions about Tinney

What does Tinney mean?
Tinney means a surname from Irish.
What part of speech is Tinney?
Tinney is a proper noun.

Words near Tinney in the dictionary

  1. tinner's snips
  2. tinneries
  3. tinners
  4. tinnery
  5. Tinnevelly
  6. Tinney
  7. Tinneys
  8. tinnie
  9. tinnient
  10. tinnier
  11. tinnies

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