Definitions for sheeny

sheeny sheen·y

Spelling: [shee-nee]
IPA: /ˈʃi ni/

Sheeny is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in sheeny (eehnsy).

Definitions for sheeny

noun

  1. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Jew.

adjective

  1. shining; lustrous.

Origin of sheeny

First recorded in 1615-25; sheen + -y1

Examples for sheeny

Again there was a wait before the boy came back, and again a wait in a sheeny chair before Mr. Baxter looked up.

With that out came her hatpin, and she made a lunge at sheeny Rose.

Between two smirking waxen women in sheeny drapery he saw that which brought him to a pause and set him gazing.

If you have worked your way through the South at all, maybe you've heard of sheeny John.

Over the rosy skirts of Eos hung a full and heavy robe of swelling grey and black clouds, edged with a fringe of sheeny gold.

sheeny kept her bed this morning, overcome by the tumults of the preceding evening, and Shaan officiated in her place.

So I parted with my last quarter and was sent to a sheeny store in Broadway.

And I made Thompson agree to settle your doctor's bill and expenses with that sheeny.

Then the sheeny track of light in the water, dancing and rippling.

“The sheeny was no good,” was all the character he gave him.

Word Value for sheeny
Scrable

12

Words with friends

11

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