sheeny
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃiːni/
Audio (AU) (file)
Etymology 1
Unknown.
Alternative forms
- sheeney, sheenie
Noun
sheeny (plural sheenies)
- (slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A Jew.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], OCLC 560090630:
- Shylock chimes with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the queen’s leech Lopez, his jew’s heart being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- "I've told you before now not to push that long, sheeny beak of yours into my affairs."
- 1946, Mezz Mezzrow; Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, New York: Random House, page 6:
- One time in Humboldt Park Leo "Bow" Gisensohn, our leader, didn't like the way a cop down by the lake called him "sheeny."
- 2005, "Creed, OK", Carnivàle episode 17
- Max Baer ain't no Jew.
Sure he is. Everybody knows that. Sheeny to the core.
- Max Baer ain't no Jew.
- Synonyms: (not always pejorative) Yid, heeb, hymie, kike, shylock
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- (slang) A cheat or fraudster.
Translations
a Jew (slur)
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Etymology 2
From sheen + -y.
Adjective
sheeny (comparative sheenier, superlative sheeniest)
- Having a sheen; glossy.
- Bright; radiant; shining.
- 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Recollections of the Arabian Nights”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, OCLC 1008064829, part I, page 22:
- And many a sheeny summer-morn, / Adown the Tigris I was borne, / By Bagdat's shrines of fretted gold, / High-walled gardens green and old; […]
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Anagrams
- Heyens, Heynes