Chinaman

chinaman English Etymology From en cpi -. en zh 中國人 ("en China man"). Applied also to ships by analogy with East Indiaman. Pronunciation en /ˈt͡ʃaɪnəmən/ [ˈt͡ʃʰaɪ̯nəmɪ̽n] en /ˈt͡ʃɑenəmən/ AU en en-au-chinaman.ogg AU en /ˈt͡ʃainaman/ Caribbean Noun Chinamen en dated now offensive A Chinese person, or person of Chinese descent. en Chinaperson 391 A disorderly Chinaman is rare, and a lazy one does not exist. So long as a Chinaman has strength to use his hands he needs no support from anybody; white men often complain of want of work, but a Chinaman offers no such complaint; he always manages to find something to do.Any white man can swear a Chinaman’s life away in the courts, but no Chinaman can testify against a white man. en 1906 Hubert D. Russell Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror, 1906 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rV0vQgaH_eQC&pg=PA251&dq=%22Chinaman%22%7C%22Chinamen%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=H-rpUv3zHoSCkQWs3oGIBg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Chinaman%22%7C%22Chinamen%22&f=false 251 2003 Another favorite pastime of the Highbinder who is usually a loafer, is to levy blackmail on a wealthy Chinaman.If it were not that the Chinamen kill only men of their own race and let alone all other men, the citizens of San Francisco would have sacked and burned Chinatown. en 1907 1980 w:Barbara Baynton Human Toll Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson University of Queensland Press St Lucia 147 On the flat behind the mill, dawn-rising Chinamen shogged with nimble bare feet under their yoke-linked watering-cans. These busy brethren, meeting sometimes on the same narrow track, would pause, ant-like, seemingly to dumbly regard one another and their burdens, then, still ant-like, pass silently to their work. en 1913 w:Sax Rohmer The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu 25 "It is my fly-trap!" shrieked the Chinaman. "And I am the god of destruction!" 137 The carts rattle by, swinging from side to side; two Chinamen lollop along under their wooden yokes with the straining vegetable baskets—their pigtails and blue blouses fly out in the wind. en w:Jules Furthman Shanghai Express (film) Shanghai Express 1932 Sam Salt Eugene Pallette What future is there being a Chinaman? You're born, eat your way through a handful of rice, and you die. What a country! Let's have a drink. 1941, George Ade, Stories of the Streets and of the Town: From the Chicago Record 1893 - 1900, reprinted as 2003, Stories of Chicago, page 163, In Clark Street, where all the nations of the earth dwell together in harmony, one has but to go downstairs to find a Chinaman. And when found he is washing. America (poem) America 33 America it's them bad Russians.Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians. en 2007 Xavier: Renegade Angel Xavier: Renegade Angel 1 6 Diner Employee: How long you been standing there, you freak?Diner Customer: What are you, a Chinaman?Xavier (Vernon Chatman Vernon Chatman): I wish I knew myself.Diner Employee: We don't cotton to strange Chinamen with no sense of self who stand secretly by for indeterminate amounts of time. Gonna put you in a world of hurt. A sailing ship of the 18th and 19th centuries engaged in the Old China Trade. en US slang obsolete offensive addiction from a narcotic, especially heroin. from 20th c. 1952-11-05 To Allen Ginsberg 140 Chinaman half in and half out of the door. Codeine and goof balls, and complete discouragement. Usage notes For more on the usage of this term, see Chinaman (term) Wikipedia's article. Hyponyms Chinese person en China girl Chinawoman Coordinate terms en China girl Chinawoman Derived terms en Chinaman's chance Chinaman's chance in hell John Chinaman Johnny Chinaman must have killed a Chinaman Chinaperson Chinawoman Chinaman's Hat Chinaman's Peak Translations ethnic slur a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man Chink Anagrams en aachimnn chainman en Ethnonyms China