[f. TIN sb. + -Y.]
1. Consisting of, abounding in, or yielding tin; formerly also, Of tin, made of tin.
1552. Huloet, Tynny or of tynne, stanneus.
1576. Baker, Jewell of Health, 231. Let this be kept in a Sylver or Tynnie vessel.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., IV. xi. 31. Dart, nigh chockt with sands of tinny mines.
1612. Drayton, Poly-olb., i. 157. Those armes of sea that thrust into the tinny strand.
1695. Blackmore, Pr. Arth., VI. 419. Pale Tinny Oar, and Copper’s brighter Vein.
1881. Standard, 28 Oct., 1/2. The lode is six feet wide, and tinny throughout.
2. Like or resembling tin or that of tin; characteristic of tin; esp. of sounds; in Painting, hard, crude, metallic.
1877. Hallock, Sportsman’s Gaz., 379. Long tinny mouth [of a fish].
1892. Sat. Rev., 21 May, 597/2. We have accused Mr. Parsons of a hard tinny quality in colour and form.
1904. Kate D. Wiggin, Affair at Inn, 177. She was sitting at the old tinny-sounding spinet.
1908. Daily Chron., 24 Oct., 3/1. How tinny look Claude’s landscapes in the room at the National Gallery.
b. Tasting or smelling of tin; tinged with tin.
1906. Blackw. Mag., Aug., 213/1. One of the pans in the dairy smelt suspiciously ‘tinny.’
3. slang. Having plenty of ‘tin’; rich, wealthy.
1871. Punch, 14 Oct., 160/2. There’s heaps of tinny fellows who’ll be awful glad to give.
