Green’s Dictionary of Slang

cheena n.

[? Sp.; coined by Anthony Burgess in Clockwork Orange (1962)]

(US teen) a woman.

[US]M.A. Volovic ‘An Etymological Dictionary and Distributive Analysis of The NADSAT Language’ 🌐 The generic words for man and woman are almost always shortened – ‘woman’ appears as cheena (from shortened Russian zhenshina), ‘man’ appears as veck (shortened Russian chelloveck).