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Chinee en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈt͡ʃaɪniː/

Etymology

Back-formation from Chinese, using -ee.

Meanings

1. (dated, ethnic, offensive, qualifier:Chinese Pidgin English, slur) A person from China.
   • We endure our abuses of orphanotrophism even when they are repulsive to the heathen Chinee. 1910 September 10, Bayard Holmes, “Orphanotrophism”, in The Lancet-clinic, volume 104, number 11, page 238:
   • But the hands that were played / By that heathen Chinee, / And the points that he made, / Were quite frightful to see,— / Till at last he put down a right bower, / Which the same Nye had dealt unto me. 1870, Bret Harte, Plain Language from Truthful James:

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Japanee · Portugee