The story
- Irish · borrowed fromSeoinín“Johnny”
- English todayshoneen
Borrowed from Irish Seoinín (“Johnny”), from Seán (“John, John Bull”) + -ín (diminutive suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
shoneen
Today it means: An Irish person considered excessively Anglophile, an Irish person who acts English or desires to be part of English society. Full definition →
Irish Seoinín