sheenyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Attested since the early 19th century. May be a mockery of Yiddish שיין (sheyn, “beautiful, nice”), much used in praising wares.

別の表記

• sheeney, sheenie

名詞

sheeny (plural sheenies)

1. (slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A Jew.

   Synonyms: (not always pejorative) Yid, heeb, Hymie, kike, shylock

   • 1825/6, Charles Molloy Westmacott, The English spy, an original work, characteristic, satirical, and humorous, comprising scenes and sketches in every rank of society... drawn from the life by Bernard Blackmantle‎:

     May I never get groggy, if I shall ever forget the joke between you and the old Sheenie, when you threatened to throw him overboard for selling you a dumb time-keeper. ‘Blesh ma heart,’ said the Jew, while his under works shook like a cutter’s foresail going about, ‘how could you expect de vatch to go well, ven de ship vas all in confusion?’ an excuse that saved him from sailing ashore in a skuttle-bucket.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     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, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), 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”, in Carnivàle, episode 17:

     Max Baer ain't no Jew.
     Sure he is. Everybody knows that. Sheeny to the core.

2. (slang) A cheat or fraudster.

語源 2

From sheen +‎ -y.

形容詞

sheeny (comparative sheenier, superlative sheeniest)

1. Having a sheen; glossy.
2. Bright; radiant; shining.
   • 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Recollections of the Arabian Nights”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, 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; […]

アナグラム

• Heynes, Heyens, yen she

Sources

• Eric Partridge, Slang To-day and Yesterday, 3rd ed., New York: Barnes & Noble, 1950.