spinky

adj. (generally) good; neat, nifty, cool, spiffy. In the phrase spinky new, brand new. Also spinkee. Subjects: English

Editorial Note: Rarely, spinky is used in a negative sense. The spinky in the 1986 citation could be a typographical or transcription error for “spicy.”

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Citations: [1986 Wade G Sunday Mail (Queensland, Australia) (Feb. 16) “It’s The Spread On The Bread That Makes The Difference”: Spinky Asparagus Sandwich.…Top with the asparagus then the red capsicum.…Garnish with a ring of red capsicum.] 1995 [Dan Hughes] Usenet: rec.arts.movies (Feb. 16) “Re: 5 Favourite Kid Actors”: The kid from “time Bandits” was spinky too. 1997 Maria Cianci San Francisco Chronicle (California) (Apr. 30) “Banish The Box”: In no more time than it takes to make packaged pad Thai, you can whip up a spinky version using fresh ingredients and seasonings. [1998 [pmoments] Usenet: alt.pets.ferrets (Aug. 13) “What is the difference”: It’s hard enough to get an abused child away from thir abuser, let alone some mangy, spinky ferret.] [1999 [Jan Sand] Usenet: alt.arts.poetry.comments (Feb. 28) “Re: junior wrote, ‘Clinton is Having sex with a 13 yr old’”: A true left will only rise in this country again if these spinky little liberals have the guts to lose some elections on principle.] 2002 [TeaLeaf] Usenet: alt.games.half-life.counterstrike (Oct. 10) “Re: N42 Pimpin’ & MeatHook Pimpin’”: We are just about to bring our spinky new server on stream as well—very fast and lots of lurverly RAM. 2003 [Jono] forgetting actionscript (U.K.) (Aug. 15) “Computers. tsk.”: One shiny new 400w psu later, and everything is spinky again. 2004 [Sierro] Usenet: alt.games.baldurs-gate (May 9) “Re: Did anyone get bored playing BG2?”: Anyone found a high resolution (1280x960) messes up the graphics a lot? I dropped it back to 1024 and it’s all spinky now. 2004 [Janer] @ Ireland HLCCL Forums (July 12) “Sapphire x800xt platinum”: I now have quite a spinkee comp (spent a fortune last few months upgrading). 2005 [Gwen] The Life and Times of a Diet Coke Addict (Greenville, S.C.) (Oct. 4) “Insert witty title here”: Spinky—(adj.)—Cool, neat, nifty, etc. 2005 [The Lola (princesslola)] Complusive Dysfunction (Hattiesburg, Miss.) (Jan. 8) “sap warning”: He also made some other characters not based off of anything and those are super spinky spiffy, too. 2005 [Mad Ad] Usenet: uk.rec.cars.maintenance (Apr. 23) “Re: Boy racers”: It looks techie and spinkee especially with the readout so if you’ve money to burn, get some for the looks alone. 2005 Mark James Famfamfam.com (Birmingham, U.K.) (Sept. 6) “After Eight Mint”: My site is now sporting spinkee new Mint statistics logging.

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