`  :It's so easy you could do it yourself if you weren't just interested in harassment.: ``Some etymologists believe ``shyster`` is a derivative of Shakespeare’s character Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, used to describe a devious, scheming person of Jewish background who will try any scam in the book to make a buck. In 1895, Funk’s Standard Dictionary defined a shyster as ``a lawyer who practices in an unprofessional or tricky manner; especially one who haunts the prisons and lower courts to prey on petty criminals.`` In Shakespeare’s play, other characters call Shylock a ``currish Jew`` whose ``desires are wolvish, bloody, starved, and ravenous``; he is accused of being ``the devil … in the likeness of a Jew.`` ``  `