shystern.

Brit.

/ˈʃʌɪstə/, U.S.

/ˈʃaɪstər/

Forms: Also shuyster.

Etymology: Of obscure origin. It might be < shy adj. (sense 7, disreputable) + -ster; but this sense of the adjective is apparently not current in the U.S.

slang.

1. ‘A lawyer who practises in an unprofessional or tricky manner; especially, one who haunts the prisons and lower courts to prey on petty criminals; hence, any one who conducts his business in a tricky manner’ ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895). Also attributive or adj. originally and chiefly U.S.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > inferior, rascally, or shrewd

fogger1564

pettifogger1564

long fifteen1611

leguleian1617

peatc1680

pettifog1721

Philadelphia lawyer1788

legal beagle1822

lawyerling1830

shyster1844

legal eagle1869

society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > dishonesty > dishonest person

shondc725

makeshift1554

roundabout1605

fraudsman1613

trickster1711

bug1785

fly-by-night1796

twister1834

rigger1859

shyster1877

crook1879

heel1914

wide boy1937

society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > dishonest

manOE

unjustc1400

bribing1530

unhonest1545

makeshift1592

sinistrous1600

horse-fair1606

under-honest1609

dishonest1611

one-eyed1833

shystering1860

cross1882

crook1911

bent1914

fly-by-night1914

crookish1927

shyster1943

shonky1970

1844 G. Wilkes Mysteries of Tombs 44/1 He is consulted by the magistrates on all important points of law, and the inferior shysters look upon him with a reverence approaching veneration.

1849 G. G. Foster New York in Slices 20 He must..wait next day for the visits of the ‘shyster’ lawyers—a set of turkey-buzzards whose touch is pollution and whose breath is pestilence.

1856 Knickerb. Mag. Apr. XLVII. 434 in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) If these two ‘shuysters’ on the other side could get one more drink down your throat, you couldn't travel at all.

1857 N.Y. Tribune 13 Mar. (Bartlett 1860) The shysters, or Tombs lawyers, were on hand, and sought to intercede for their clients.

a1860 N.Y. Tribune (Bartlett 1860) When a man or woman is thrown into prison, a shyster leech gets access to him, and extorts from him his last cent under the pretence of obtaining his liberation.

1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly III. vi. 83 They..looked on a prominent civic official as a mere shyster.

1902 G. N. Boothby Uncle Joe's Legacy 98 The shyster lawyer.

1943 M. H. Harris Vegetative Eye 15 Not to Memory, with its shyster lackey, Association.

1952 Manch. Guardian Weekly 19 June 3 They call Taft's ‘shyster methods’ so necessary.

1961 Listener 14 Dec. 1046/1 A solicitor's chief clerk who persuades his shyster employer to leave the country to avoid embezzlement charges.

1981 J. Wainwright All on Summer's Day 31 The shyster lawyers..swear blind the client's been manhandled while in police custody.

2. Australian. Alteration of shicer n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > unproductive

duffer1854

shicer1855

shyster1938

society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [noun] > failure to meet obligations > one who

deficient1697

lame duck1761

defaulter1808

man of straw1823

waddler1831

shicer1896

skip1915

shyster1938

1938 X. Herbert Capricornia (1939) xxi. 306 You lousy sweatin' old shyster you.

1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 66 Shyster, a worthless mine.

Derivatives

ˈshystering n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > dishonest

manOE

unjustc1400

bribing1530

unhonest1545

makeshift1592

sinistrous1600

horse-fair1606

under-honest1609

dishonest1611

one-eyed1833

shystering1860

cross1882

crook1911

bent1914

fly-by-night1914

crookish1927

shyster1943

shonky1970

society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > dishonesty > action

brokery1602

trinketing1646

adultery1753

traffickery1838

hanky-panky1841

grafting1859

shystering1860

graft1865

skulduggery1867

sharp practice1869

in and out work1888

by-practice1913

grift1914

dirty pool1973

1860 Knickerb. Mag. Nov. LVI. 458 in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) A kind of twopenny shystering smartness and snap~judgment smartness.

1872 Bristed in R. G. White Amer. View Copyright (1880) 40 At Tuesday's session an unprepossessing person..made a ‘shystering’ pettifogging speech.

1895 Weekly Examiner (San Francisco) 19 Sept. 2/6 Those sharp practices generally passing under the name of shystering.

Draft additions 1993

ˈshysterism n.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal profession > [noun] > practice of > inferior or rascally

pettifogging1580

chicanery1589

pettifoggery1659

chicane1681

shysterism1926

1926 Spectator 12 June 980/2 He is an uncompromising enemy of sham and shysterism in politics.

1981 J. Wainwright Urge for Justice iii. 168 I'd accepted the brief, knowing that I'd be defending a guilty man. That, of itself, smacked of shysterism.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	shyster
释义	shystern. Brit. /ˈʃʌɪstə/, U.S. /ˈʃaɪstər/ Forms: Also shuyster. Etymology: Of obscure origin. It might be < shy adj. (sense 7, disreputable) + -ster; but this sense of the adjective is apparently not current in the U.S. slang. 1. ‘A lawyer who practises in an unprofessional or tricky manner; especially, one who haunts the prisons and lower courts to prey on petty criminals; hence, any one who conducts his business in a tricky manner’ ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895). Also attributive or adj. originally and chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > inferior, rascally, or shrewd fogger1564 pettifogger1564 long fifteen1611 leguleian1617 peatc1680 pettifog1721 Philadelphia lawyer1788 legal beagle1822 lawyerling1830 shyster1844 legal eagle1869 society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > dishonesty > dishonest person shondc725 makeshift1554 roundabout1605 fraudsman1613 trickster1711 bug1785 fly-by-night1796 twister1834 rigger1859 shyster1877 crook1879 heel1914 wide boy1937 society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > dishonest manOE unjustc1400 bribing1530 unhonest1545 makeshift1592 sinistrous1600 horse-fair1606 under-honest1609 dishonest1611 one-eyed1833 shystering1860 cross1882 crook1911 bent1914 fly-by-night1914 crookish1927 shyster1943 shonky1970 1844 G. Wilkes Mysteries of Tombs 44/1 He is consulted by the magistrates on all important points of law, and the inferior shysters look upon him with a reverence approaching veneration. 1849 G. G. Foster New York in Slices 20 He must..wait next day for the visits of the ‘shyster’ lawyers—a set of turkey-buzzards whose touch is pollution and whose breath is pestilence. 1856 Knickerb. Mag. Apr. XLVII. 434 in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) If these two ‘shuysters’ on the other side could get one more drink down your throat, you couldn't travel at all. 1857 N.Y. Tribune 13 Mar. (Bartlett 1860) The shysters, or Tombs lawyers, were on hand, and sought to intercede for their clients. a1860 N.Y. Tribune (Bartlett 1860) When a man or woman is thrown into prison, a shyster leech gets access to him, and extorts from him his last cent under the pretence of obtaining his liberation. 1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly III. vi. 83 They..looked on a prominent civic official as a mere shyster. 1902 G. N. Boothby Uncle Joe's Legacy 98 The shyster lawyer. 1943 M. H. Harris Vegetative Eye 15 Not to Memory, with its shyster lackey, Association. 1952 Manch. Guardian Weekly 19 June 3 They call Taft's ‘shyster methods’ so necessary. 1961 Listener 14 Dec. 1046/1 A solicitor's chief clerk who persuades his shyster employer to leave the country to avoid embezzlement charges. 1981 J. Wainwright All on Summer's Day 31 The shyster lawyers..swear blind the client's been manhandled while in police custody. 2. Australian. Alteration of shicer n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > unproductive duffer1854 shicer1855 shyster1938 society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [noun] > failure to meet obligations > one who deficient1697 lame duck1761 defaulter1808 man of straw1823 waddler1831 shicer1896 skip1915 shyster1938 1938 X. Herbert Capricornia (1939) xxi. 306 You lousy sweatin' old shyster you. 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 66 Shyster, a worthless mine. Derivatives ˈshystering n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] > dishonest manOE unjustc1400 bribing1530 unhonest1545 makeshift1592 sinistrous1600 horse-fair1606 under-honest1609 dishonest1611 one-eyed1833 shystering1860 cross1882 crook1911 bent1914 fly-by-night1914 crookish1927 shyster1943 shonky1970 society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [noun] > dishonesty > action brokery1602 trinketing1646 adultery1753 traffickery1838 hanky-panky1841 grafting1859 shystering1860 graft1865 skulduggery1867 sharp practice1869 in and out work1888 by-practice1913 grift1914 dirty pool1973 1860 Knickerb. Mag. Nov. LVI. 458 in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) A kind of twopenny shystering smartness and snap~judgment smartness. 1872 Bristed in R. G. White Amer. View Copyright (1880) 40 At Tuesday's session an unprepossessing person..made a ‘shystering’ pettifogging speech. 1895 Weekly Examiner (San Francisco) 19 Sept. 2/6 Those sharp practices generally passing under the name of shystering. Draft additions 1993 ˈshysterism n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > [noun] > practice of > inferior or rascally pettifogging1580 chicanery1589 pettifoggery1659 chicane1681 shysterism1926 1926 Spectator 12 June 980/2 He is an uncompromising enemy of sham and shysterism in politics. 1981 J. Wainwright Urge for Justice iii. 168 I'd accepted the brief, knowing that I'd be defending a guilty man. That, of itself, smacked of shysterism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1844
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