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Definition of Sheenies
1. sheenie [n] - See also: sheenie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheenies
Literary usage of Sheenies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing Containing Lives of the Most by Henry Downes Miles (1906)
"The sheenies said " it was all right," and the Brume observed "nothing was the
matter.") 2.—Sampson hit the Jew in the body, ..."
2. Publications by Edinburgh Abbotsford Club, Abbotsford Club, Edinburgh, Lefe Book Club, Zenger Club, Saint Louis Club (1841)
"... whose country house was called, ' the sheenies,' a corruption ; it was built
on a part of a site once occupied by a convent ' to our lady of Sienna. ..."
3. Shirley Brooks of Punch: His Life, Letters, and Diaries by George Somes Layard (1907)
""NONE OF YOUR sheenies" without the trouble of doing more than looking up at it.
... Proud Jews, of a Spanish race—none of your sheenies. ..."
4. Proceedings of the New York State Stenographers' Association (1903)
"A crowd of these boys were in the way and the driver, losing patience, shouted.
" Get out of the way, you sheenies, or we will run you down! ..."
5. The Bookman (1908)
"For the sheenies are it, to-day, all righty. Christmas in the public schools?
Not for Ikey and Moe and Jake, and they're the candy kids to-day, slip cheese, ..."
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