glossy vs sheeny what difference

what is difference between glossy and sheeny

English

Etymology

gloss +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɒsi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɔsi/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɑsi/
• Rhymes: -ɒsi, -ɔːsi

Adjective

glossy (comparative glossier, superlative glossiest)

1. Having a smooth, silk-like, reflective surface.

Antonyms

• matte

Translations

Noun

glossy (plural glossies)

1. (chiefly Britain, informal) A glossy magazine.

   The supermarket glossies are full of celebrity gossip and fad diets.

2. (informal) A glossy photograph.
   • 2013, Stacy Zemon, The DJ Sales and Marketing Handbook

     Black and white 8- × 10-inch glossies are best, but 5- × 7-inch is okay too. Place photos on top of cardboard when mailing. Don’t tape or paper-clip because doing so can ruin the photo.

3. (film, informal) A film depicting people with glamorous lifestyles.
   • 1959, Film Review (page 102)

     Anna Magnani has been making Hollywood glossies recently, so it was good to see her back again in a native Italian production, The Last Temptation, in which with great artistry and all her usual power she played a Nun who finds a woman’s and even a mother’s heart beating strongly beneath her ‘sister’s’ habit.

   • 1973, Films and Filming (volume 20, page 10)

     […] the first home-made guide to TV films by which is meant old films shown on the box, not those new Hollywood glossies made specially for it (though a guide there too would soon be welcome).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃiːni/

Etymology 1

Origin unknown.

Alternative forms

• sheeney

Noun

sheeny (plural sheenies)

1. (slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A Jew.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     Shylock chimes with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the queen’s leech Lopez, his jew’s heart being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive.

   • 1946, Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, Payback Press 1999, p. 6:

     One time in Humboldt Park Leo “Bow” Gisensohn, our leader, didn’t like the way a cop down by the lake called him “sheeny.”

   • 2005, “Creed, OK”, Carnivàle episode 17

     Max Baer ain’t no Jew.
     Sure he is. Everybody knows that. Sheeny to the core.

   Synonyms: (not always pejorative) Yid, heeb, hymie, kike, shylock

2. (slang) A cheat or fraudster.

Translations

Etymology 2

sheen +‎ -y

Adjective

sheeny (comparative sheenier, superlative sheeniest)

1. having a sheen; glossy
2. Bright; shining; radiant.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Recollections of the Arabian Nights

     a sheeny summer morn

Anagrams

• Heyens, Heynes

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