different between sheeny vs sheepy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?ni/

Etymology 1

Origin unknown.

Alternative forms

• sheeney

Noun

sheeny (plural sheenies)

1. (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.

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

2. (slang) A cheat or fraudster.

Translations

Etymology 2

sheen +? -y

Adjective

sheeny (comparative sheenier, superlative sheeniest)

1. having a sheen; glossy
2. Bright; shining; radiant.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Recollections of the Arabian Nights

     a sheeny summer morn

Anagrams

• Heyens, Heynes

English

Etymology

sheep +? -y

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?pi

Adjective

sheepy (comparative sheepier, superlative sheepiest)

1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a sheep.

Related terms

• sheepish

Translations

Noun

sheepy (plural sheepies)

1. (childish or endearing) sheep

Translations

Anagrams

• pee shy, pee-shy