Home › Words › S › shannyshannyshanny means A fish, the prickleback.nounA fish, the prickleback.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.stichaeid 68% match — Any fish in the family Stichaeidae; a prickleback or a shanny. vs shanny →prickleback 63% match — Any of the fish in the family Stichaeidae. vs shanny →schelly 59% match — A fish, the powan (Coregonus clupeoides). vs shanny →foxfish 56% match — A fox shark or sea fox. vs shanny →stanstickle 56% match — A small fish, the threespine stickleback. vs shanny →dogfish 55% match — Any of various small sharks vs shanny →ghostfish 55% match — The wrymouth, Cryptacanthodes maculatus. vs shanny →roughhead 54% match — A fish, the common shiner, Luxilus cornutus. vs shanny →