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sheik

[ sheek, sheyk ]

noun

  1. Also sheikh. (in Islamic countries) the patriarch of a tribe or family; chief: a term of polite address.
  2. Slang. a man held to be masterful and irresistibly charming to women.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sheik1

First recorded in 1570–80; from Arabic 󲹲ḫ “old man, chief,” from shaka “to grow, grow up, grow old”
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By the 1960s, the Egyptian was a wealthy man who was wheeling and dealing with everyone from Arab sheiks to Papa Doc Duvalier, Haiti's notorious dictator.

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Al-Hela, a businessman and tribal sheik from Yemen, was first captured in Egypt in 2002 and held overseas before being brought to Guantánamo two years later.

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The key piece of evidence was a videotape of Myers meeting an FBI agent posing as an Arab sheik in a motel room at Kennedy International Airport in New York.

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They are asked politely by the sheik to refrain from talking during his lesson.

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The One and its myriad extravagances are reserved for sheiks and nobles, celebrities and CEOs.

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