sheeny
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈʃiːni/
sheeny (plural sheenies)
- (slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A Jew.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- 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
- 1946, Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 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: Yid, heeb, hymie, kike, shylock
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- (slang) A cheat or fraudster.
- French: youde, youpin
- Russian: жи́д
sheeny (comparative sheenier, superlative sheeniest)
- having a sheen; glossy
- Bright; shining; radiant.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Recollections of the Arabian Nights
- a sheeny summer morn
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Recollections of the Arabian Nights
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