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I always thought “shylock” was a Jewish slang term for a private detective.
No idea why or where it came from, but I’m glad I’ve never felt the need to use it.
Apparently (from reading the Wikipedia entry) Elizabethan england was quite antisemitic and it was common to portray Jews with particularly offensive stereotypes.
So it’s always been a slur.
It may have been an association with “Sherlock” made by my childhood brain that I never had the need to use or question for decades.
Better late than never, I suppose.
Hah! Yeah. That an entirely plausible innocent childhood association.
I thought it was Matlock’s twin except with a mustache
Growing up my only exposure to the term was this 90s comic strip in the newspaper
Shylock, not Sherlock. 😉