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Etymology
Irish seónín, from Seón ‘John’ + -ín diminutive suffix.

Pronunciation
IPA|/'ʃəʊni:n/

Noun
en-noun

1. (Anglo-Irish, derogatory) One who prefers English attitudes, customs or lifestyle to Irish ones.

#*1889: Good Father John O'Hart / In penal days rode out / To a shoneen who had free lands / And his own snipe and trout. — WB Yeats, ‘The Ballad of Father O'Hart’
#*1922: So then the citizens begin talking about the Irish language and the corporation meeting and all to that and the shoneens that can’t speak their own language — James Joyce, Ulysses

ru:shoneen

• 2007-08-18 17:11 - Widsith - /* Noun */

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