spinny

comparative spinnier · superlative spinniest

1. informalAssociated with spinning; moving with a spinning motion.

   1997, DAN Seemiller, M Holowchak, Winning Table Tennis: Skills, Drills, and Strategies - all 3 versions » The sound at contact should be solid and crisp, not “spinny.”

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   “It is a spinny thing with wires in it, with the wires wrapped around something (coil) and N and S (unsure what N and S were)."

   2003, Ian S. Ginns, Stephen J. Norton, Campbell J. McRobbie, “Adding Value to the Teaching and Learning of Design and Technology”, in Pupils ^([sic]) Attitudes Towards Technology Annual Conference June 2003, pages 115–118

   Then you got a double whammy - your eyes were full of orange and your head was spinny and dizzy.

   2006, J Purkis, Finding a Different Kind of Normal: Misadventures with Asperger Syndrome

plural spinnies

1. in pluraloftenslangcomputingSynonym of hard drive.

   And if your computer doesn't have ram, it defaults to swap disk- which on an SSD is fast, but on a spinny is slow.

   2025 March 14, u/NotQuiteDeadYetPhoto, Reddit, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2025

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   I always turned it off when I had spinnies. Bearings wear the most when you change rotational speed. If you keep the rotational speed constant, they last a very very long time.

   2023 August 8, umeng2002, “Windows 'auto turn off hard disk' setting - enable or disable?”, in TechPowerUp, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2024

   My server will be used to store PLEX content and offer iSCSI to my VMWARE hosts but those will be from NVME drives which. So the spinnies will just be doing SMB shares.

   2023 September 7, serverboy, “Drive Spin Down Query”, in TrueNAS, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2026

   Synonyms: hard drive

plural spinnies

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of spinney.

   The downs rise steep, crowned with black fir spinnies.

   1857, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in Two Years Ago, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC