[f. TINNY a.] Tinny quality.
1850. Athenæum, 7 Dec., 1286/2. The photographist, with no such overweening pretension, and without the loss of so much ill-applied labour, does the thing [imitation]—much better, and has, already, with something yet remaining that is disagreeable and in exaggerated hardness of effect and ‘tinniness’ of execution—produced more than these worshippers [Pre-Raphaelites] of the merely old.
1864. Brewer, Sound and its Phenomena, ii. III. § 108. 69. Some [sounds] have a reedy quality, others a drone, and others again a ‘tinniness,’ a silvery clearness, or a harsh bray.
1891. Kipling, Life’s Handicap, ii. 37. Tinned beef of surpassing tinniness.
