Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Chinese man.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A manufacturer of china.
- noun A native of China, or a man of Chinese origin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A native of China; a Chinese.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A
man who isChinese .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a ball bowled by a left-handed bowler to a right-handed batsman that spins from off to leg
- noun (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent
Etymologies
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Examples
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Avoid the term Chinaman, which is considered patronizing.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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Avoid the term Chinaman, which is considered patronizing.
Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage PAUL R. MARTIN 2002
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You think sometimes the Chinaman is a stolid, careless man, who can take a kick and go ahead and not mind it.
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Without this element, indeed, she might almost close her warehouses and send the fleet that studs her roads to ride in other harbours, for in every branch of trade the Chinaman is absolutely indispensable.
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887
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The word 'Chinaman' has subservient, racist connotations in American history.
NYDN Rss Denis Hamill 2011
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To most of us the word Chinaman calls up the picture of the laundryman around the corner in spite of the fact that there are some three hundred million Chinamen in the world engaged in other occupations.
The Book of Business Etiquette Nella Henney
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The ordinary Chinaman is not overburdened with cash.
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The oldest Canadian-born Chinaman is Cumyow, a well known local Vancouver merchant, notary and interpreter.
Oriental Immigration 1923
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The Chinaman is the slowest of mortals under compulsion and until he gets to see the point, but after he sees and is free to act, he is the swiftest in execution of any being on the face of the earth.
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One will hear people say: "Hab got pigeon," which means they have business to look after; or if a Chinaman is requested to do some work which he thinks is the duty of another, he will say: "No belongee boy pigeon."
Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days 1890
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