Lie still, you little fool.
-The Sheik, played by Rudolph Valentino, speaking to his captive Englishwoman, intertitle in the 1921 silent film
Thank you Mr. Sheik, Thank you!
-TV advertisement for condoms, 1995, words spoken by a boy who thinks he has gotten lucky with a girl
Throughout his career he was just as silent as he was dangerous. The Sheik never spoke.
-World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) biography of superstar Ed Farhat aka The Sheik (active 1949-1998)
Lane gives an unexpected secondary meaning- “an old and weak or decrepit man who is of no use”- for Shaikh, whose primary meaning is what you’d expect, as Rudolph Valentino, Ed Farhat, and the Durex Corporation also wanted to believe, and as did KhairAllah when I called him Shaikh al-Sikka, of the Trail, not al-Sireer, of the Bed, after he mounted his camel and nodded in agreement.