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John Chinaman en · PROPN

Meanings

1. (offensive) A Chinese man; the Chinese people generally.
   • My head was full of stories about John Chinaman: opium, slavery, how they ate the hands of Christian babies. 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 193:
   • John Chinaman is playing the devil with us shipmasters of the English nation. 1840 March 25, The Colonist, Sydney, page 2, column 1:
   • The simple cup of tea, and frugal meal of rice and salt fish, are the principal factors to " John Chinaman's " success wherever he goes. 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 234:

Synonyms

Johnny Chinaman