tinny

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: tin=ny

CIDE DICTIONARY

tinny, a. 

 Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin.  Drayton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tinny, adj. & n.
--adj. (tinnier, tinniest)
1 of or like tin.
2 (of a metal object) flimsy, insubstantial.
3 a sounding like struck tin. b (of reproduced sound) thin and metallic, lacking low frequencies.
4 Austral. sl. lucky.
--n. (also tinnie) (pl. -ies) Austral. sl. a can of beer.

Derivative

tinnily adv. tinniness n.

THESAURUS

tinny

Mickey Mouse, aureate, base, brass, brassy, brazen, bronze, bronzy, cheap, cheesy, choked, coarse, common, copper, coppery, cracked, croaking, croaky, cupreous, cuprous, dry, ferrous, ferruginous, flimsy, fourth-class, gilt, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated, golden, gruff, guttural, harsh, harsh-sounding, hoarse, husky, inferior, iron, ironlike, irregular, lead, leaden, low-class, low-grade, low-quality, low-test, mean, mercurial, mercurous, metallic, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, paltry, pewter, pewtery, poor, punk, quicksilver, ragged, raucid, raucous, rough, roupy, rude, second-best, second-class, seedy, shabby, shoddy, silver, silver-plated, silvery, squawking, squawky, steel, steely, stertorous, strangled, tacky, tawdry, thick, third-class, third-rate, throaty, tin, twangy