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shoneen Anglo-Irish. (ʃəʊˈniːn) Also shauneen. [f. mod. Irish Seón, ad. Eng. John + -{iacu}n diminutive suffix.] (See quot. 1910.) Used (esp. attrib.) to indicate a person's inclination towards English rather than Irish standards and attitudes in cultural life, sport, etc. Hence shoˈneenism.c 1840 K...
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Shoneenism
Moran (1869–1936), used the term shoneen (), alongside the term West Brit, to characterize those who displayed snobbery, admiration for England or mimicked towards the shoneen as the Irish language diminutive ending een (ín) when used in this manner has a loading of contempt.
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Jackeen
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Culchie
Shoneen
West Brit
Uncle Tom
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Anti-English sentiment in Ireland
Pejorative demonyms
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West Brit
Lyons, defined a "shoneen" as a person "of native Irish stock who committed the unforgivable sin of aping English or West-Briton manners and attitudes" Similar to shoneen, another variant since c. 1840, jackeen ('Little Jack'), was used in the countryside in reference to Dubliners with British sympathies
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Uncle Tom syndrome
Boba liberal
Colonial mentality
Culchie
Cultural cringe
Dic Siôn Dafydd
Hanjian
Jackeen
Neturei Karta
No true Scotsman
Patrol 36
Race traitor
Satmar
Shoneen
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west
▪ I. west, adv., n.1, and a. (wɛst) Forms: 1– west (1 wæst), 3 Orm. wesst, 3–7 weste (5 Sc. veste), Sc. 5, 7–9 wast, 6–7 weast(e, (6 Sc. weist, weyst, 7 Sc. vaist). [Com. Teutonic: OE. west adv. = OFris. west (WFris. west, NFris. wêst, wâst), OS. -west (in north-, sûthwest; MLG. and LG., MDu. and Du...
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Loughgall ambush
, gave a speech stating the British Government understood that it could buy off the government of the Republic of Ireland, which he described as the "shoneen
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Acting white
Miss Ann
Mister Charlie
Oppositional culture
Oreo
Passing (racial identity)
Pinkerton Syndrome
Race traitor
Racial achievement gap in the United States
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Ernie O'Malley
It was as if "nationality did not exist to disturb or worry normal life" in Castlebar, which he called a "shoneen town", meaning "a little John Bull town
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List of Irish words used in the English language
shoneen – A West Brit, an Irishman who apes English customs.
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