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Etymology

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Borrowed from Irish Seoinín (Johnny), from Seán (John, John Bull) + -ín (diminutive suffix).

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shoneen (plural shoneens)

  1. (Ireland, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Irish person considered excessively Anglophile, an Irish person who acts English or desires to be part of English society.
    Synonyms: West Brit, jackeen
    • 1889, W B Yeats, The Ballad of Father O'Hart:
      Good Father John O'Hart
      In penal days rode out
      To a shoneen who had free lands
      And his own snipe and trout.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
      So then the citizens begin talking about the Irish language and the corporation meeting and all to that and the shoneens that can’t speak their own language

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