Etymology

spinny

spin·ny
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Today it means: Associated with spinning; moving with a spinning motion. Full definition →

English spin ← Middle English spinnen
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spinny · adjective, noun1

  1. Middle Englishspinnen
  2. Englishspin
  3. English todayspinny

From spin + -y. Noun sense 1 (“hard drive”) is an allusion to disk platters spinning inside a hard drive while powered on.

spinny · noun2

  1. Latin · derived fromspīnētum
  2. English todayspinny

From Latin spīnētum.

Words from the same roots

Latinspīnētum all →

spinneyspinet

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