shoneen

British  

/ ˈʃoːniːn /

noun

1. an Irishman who imitates English ways

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Etymology

Origin of shoneen

C19: from Irish Gaelic Seoinín, diminutive of Seon John (taken as typical English name)

Example Sentences

Good Father John O'Hart In penal days rode out To a shoneen who had free lands And his own snipe and trout.

From Poems by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

All loved him, only the shoneen, Whom the devils have by the hair, From the wives, and the cats, and the children, 227To the birds in the white of the air.

From Poems by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

In Ireland there is an expression, a "shoneen" Catholic—that is to say, a Catholic who, though a Catholic, is too friendly with English Conservatism and other influences which the Nationalists dislike.

From Indian speeches (1907-1909) by Morley, John

It was not pleasant listening to, or seeing, "The Piper," to many groups of Irishmen, for it cut alike at the Parliamentary Nationalists, the Sein Feiner, and the shoneen.

From Irish Plays and Playwrights by Weygandt, Cornelius