shoneenn.
/ˈʃəʊniːn/, U.S. /ˈʃoʊˌnin/, Irish English /ˈʃoʊniːn/ Anglo-Irish.
(See quot. 1910.) Used (esp. attributively) to indicate a person's inclination towards English rather than Irish standards and attitudes in cultural life, sport, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] > person
up-skip1549
startup1555
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jackanapesa1575
hogen mogen1639
starter up1659
Mamamouchi1672
parvenu1787
shoneena1849
fine gentleman1928
rat fink1961
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > parvenu or imitator of upper classes
Jack-gentleman1550
truck-knight1625
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parvenu1787
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shoneena1849
snob1848
shoddyite1865
got-up1881
shoddy1904
a1849 J. Keegan Legends & Poems (1907) 67 The likes of him, of a bandy-legged shoneen.
1889 Times 30 Jan. 6/5 I hope to hear of ye shooting Hubert Davis..the shauneen of a land~lord.
1909 Times 21 Jan. 6/6 What difference did it make whether a man got a ‘shoneen’ education in Belfast or in Oxford so long as he was not educated an Irishman.
1910 P. W. Joyce Eng. as we speak it in Ireland 321 Shoneen, a gentleman in a small way: a would-be gentleman who puts on superior airs. Always used contemptuously.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 303 Irish sport and shoneen games.
1927 Leader 31 Dec. 517/1 That was unexpected talk to what in Ireland is called a Chamber of Commerce—Chambers whose members are mostly pro-Britishers and Shoneens.
1958 B. Behan Borstal Boy iii. 326 Now, there was a lot of shoneen writing and playing up to the herrenvolk by Rugby writers.
Derivatives
shoˈneenism n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > liking for or sympathy with other nations > [noun] > England
Anglicism1647
Anglophilism1880
Anglophilia1896
shoneenism1918
1918 F. Hackett Ireland iii. 65 West Britonism makes us what we are, shoneenism and toadyism, so it is, they're the curse of Ireland.
1920 B. MacNamara Clanking of Chains iv. 44 But the shoneenism of Ambrose was in more perfect keeping with the shoneen heart of Ballycullen... The songs which he sang were out of the English music halls, the books which he read were English drivel.
1960 20th Cent. Oct. 324 This aunt practically invented the whole concept of shoneenism... She believed that God was Anglo-Saxon, Protestant.
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