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Sheene vs Sheeny - What's the difference?

sheene | sheeny |

As adjectives the difference between sheene and sheeny

is that sheene is shiny while sheeny is having a sheen; glossy.

As a noun sheeny is

a Jew.

sheene

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (obsolete) shiny
  • * {{quote-book, year=1591, author=Edmund Spenser, title=The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Then when he was all dight he tooke his way Into the forest, that he might be seene / Of the wilde beasts in his new glory sheene . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1887, author=Various, title=Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=If Saphyres, loe! her eies be Saphyres plaine; If Rubies, loe! hir lips be Rubies sound; If Pearles, hir teeth be pearles, both pure and round; If Yvorie, her forehead yvory weene; If Gold, her locks are finest gold on ground; If Silver, her faire hands are silver sheene : But that which fairest is but few behold, Her mind, adornd with vertues manifold." }} ----

    sheeny

    English

    Etymology 1

    Origin unknown.

    Noun

    (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 ."
    Synonyms
    * yid * kike

    Etymology 2

    From sheen + -y.

    Adjective

    (er)
  • having a sheen; glossy
  • Bright; shining; radiant.
    • A sheeny summer morn. — Tennyson.