Sinn Feiner

English

Etymology

From Sinn Fein +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪnə(ɹ)

Noun

Sinn Feiner (plural Sinn Feiners)

1. A member of Sinn Fein.
   • 1960, Stewart Alsop, “How They Got that Way: Nixon”, in Nixon & Rockefeller: A Double Portrait, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, page 124:

     Put a clay pipe in [Richard] Nixon’s mouth and a hod on his shoulder or a shillelagh in his hand, and there, complete with beetling brows and uptilted nose, is the original of the old cartoon stereotype of the fighting Irishman—the Irishman of the draft riots or of Punch’s version of the Sinn Feiner.