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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

yellow man en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:now considered an ethnic slur and offensive) An Asian man or a man with Asian heritage
    • Won Chou merely relapsed into an attitude of studious melancholy, extremely trying to Mr. Fank's conception of the yellow man's status. 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
  2. (qualifier:now considered an ethnic slur and offensive) Asian people collectively; Asian culture.
    • Got in a little hometown jam / So they put a rifle in my hand / Sent me off to a foreign land / To go and kill the yellow man. 1984, Bruce Springsteen, “Born in the U.S.A.”:

Forms

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yellowman alternative lexicographic
yellow men Number=Plur lexicographic

Descendants

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