sheeny

A Jew.

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.

O, solomon Levi! Levi! tra la la la! Poor sheeny Levi, Tra la la la la la la la la la My name is Solomon Levi At my store on Salem street That’s where you’ll buy your coats and vests And everything else that’s neat (tra la la) Second-handed Ulsterettes And everything else that’s fine For all the boys they trade with me At a hundred and forty nine

A cheat or fraudster.

Having a sheen; glossy.

Bright; radiant; shining.

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; […]