Shinola

English thumb|Shinola is a defunct American brand of shoe polish. Etymology A genericization from the trade name for a brand of shoe polish, through a combination of (1) sharing the same initial syllable as en shit (compare the same linguistic phenomenon in other expurgations such as en jiminy versus en jesus or en goshdarn versus en goddamn) and (2) a construable resemblance of the colour and texture of shoe polish to those of excrement; the trade name is synchronically equivalent to a proprialization of en shine -ola<id:from Latin oleum>. Pronunciation en /ʃɪˈnoʊ.lə/ /ʃaɪˈnoʊ.lə/ GA en əʊlə 3 Noun - Euphemism for shit. en shinola en What is this Shinola? en Don't give me any Shinola! en 1951 Herman Wouk The Caine Mutiny Doubleday & Company, Inc. 64 “But he ran around with that literary crowd, you know, reading poetry by candlelight, with a few dames around for when the candles went out—that kind of Shinola ” en lowdown#Noun<gloss:story, information, summary of information>. en shinola en scoop dirt dope straight dope poop en So that's the Shinola on how he ended up stuck in the Dallas airport for two days. Related terms en know shit from Shinola Anagrams en ahilnos Shao-lin Shaolin