Lexicographical Neighbors of Chinkie
Literary usage of Chinkie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Rugby School Natural History Society by Rugby School Natural History Society (1874)
"The last little canary that I took under my protecting care was chinkie ...
But, as everything has an end, so had poor chinkie; he, vain little bird, ..."
2. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"Queensland aboriginal pigeon - English for Sugar-bag (qv). chinkie, ;;. slang for
a Chinaman. "John," short for John Chinaman, is commoner. 1882. ..."
3. More Limehouse Nights by Thomas Burke (1921)
"... talkee chinkie." The old man removed his spectacles and regarded Bert with
cold eyes. Then he spoke in a polished English accent. ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1776)
"... county palatine of, in famous petition to parliament, 77. chinkie, their annals
examined, ji Their literature and ..."
5. My Consulate in Samoa: A Record of Four Years' Sojourn in the Navigators by William Brown Churchward (1887)
"chinkie now, having somewhat proved his man, commenced to name the first of the
three suspected ones whose probable guilt had been the popular theme of ..."
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