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Definition of Chinaman
1. Noun. (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent.
Language type: Depreciation, Derogation, Disparagement, Ethnic Slur, Argot, Cant, Jargon, Lingo, Patois, Slang, Vernacular
Generic synonyms: Chinese
2. Noun. A ball bowled by a left-handed bowler to a right-handed batsman that spins from off to leg.
Definition of Chinaman
1. n. A native of China; a Chinese.
Definition of Chinaman
1. Noun. (archaic pejorative) A man who is Chinese. ¹
2. Noun. (cricket) A left arm unorthodox spin bowler ¹
3. Noun. (cricket) A ball, bowled by a left arm unorthodox spin bowler, with the wrist action of a leg break, but which spins from off to leg for a right handed batsman ¹
4. Noun. (cricket) Or, conversely, such a ball bowled with the action of a googly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chinaman
Literary usage of Chinaman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scribners Monthly (1878)
"She offered a cigar to my companion, which he accepted chinaman tried to get his
place by underhand means. Sam carefully noted his movements; ..."
2. Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet, and of the Journey of by Sir Clements R Markham, George Bogle, Thomas Manning (1876)
"The chinaman drew, his sword and stabbed the lama, so that he died of his wounds.
Now, to kill a lama is heinous in Tibet. Murmurs and discontent arose; ..."
3. Curiosities of Natural History by Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1882)
"He was asleep in his tent, and waking suddenly up, he saw a chinaman stealing
from his table. ... The pursuer then tried to seize the flying chinaman ..."
4. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1878)
"JOHN chinaman ABROAD. BY GR FITZ-ROT COLE, CE SLAVERY is a thing of the past,1
and such traces of it as survive are felt to be anomalous and doomed to early ..."
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