LekhoriLekhoriA Jew.
May I never get groggy, if I shall ever forget the joke between you and the old Sheenie, when you threatened to throw him overboard for selling you a dumb time-keeper. ‘Blesh ma heart,’ said the Jew, while his under works shook like a cutter’s foresail going about, ‘how could you expect de vatch to go well, ven de ship vas all in confusion?’ an excuse that saved him from sailing ashore in a skuttle-bucket.
A cheat or fraudster.
Seems to have originated in 1820s London. Could be a mockery of Yiddish שיין (sheyn, “beautiful, nice”), much used in praising wares.
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