"Chinee" meaning in All languages combined

See Chinee on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈt͡ʃaɪniː/ Forms: Chinees [plural]
Etymology: Back-formation from Chinese, using -ee. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Chinee (plural Chinees)
  1. (dated, offensive, Chinese Pidgin English, ethnic slur) A person from China. Tags: dated, ethnic, offensive, slur Related terms: Japanee, Portugee

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from Chinese, using -ee.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Chinees",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Chinee (plural Chinees)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English ethnic slurs",
          "parents": [
            "Ethnic slurs",
            "Offensive terms",
            "Terms by usage"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1870, Bret Harte, Plain Language from Truthful James:",
          "text": "But the hands that were played / By that heathen Chinee, / And the points that he made, / Were quite frightful to see,— / Till at last he put down a right bower, / Which the same Nye had dealt unto me.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910 September 10, Bayard Holmes, “Orphanotrophism”, in The Lancet-clinic, volume 104, number 11, page 238:",
          "text": "We endure our abuses of orphanotrophism even when they are repulsive to the heathen Chinee.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person from China."
      ],
      "id": "en-Chinee-en-noun-ekaA-~cT",
      "links": [
        [
          "ethnic",
          "ethnic"
        ],
        [
          "slur",
          "slur"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Chinese Pidgin English",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, offensive, Chinese Pidgin English, ethnic slur) A person from China."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Japanee"
        },
        {
          "word": "Portugee"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "ethnic",
        "offensive",
        "slur"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃaɪniː/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Chinee"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from Chinese, using -ee.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Chinees",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Chinee (plural Chinees)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Japanee"
    },
    {
      "word": "Portugee"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English ethnic slurs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English offensive terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1870, Bret Harte, Plain Language from Truthful James:",
          "text": "But the hands that were played / By that heathen Chinee, / And the points that he made, / Were quite frightful to see,— / Till at last he put down a right bower, / Which the same Nye had dealt unto me.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910 September 10, Bayard Holmes, “Orphanotrophism”, in The Lancet-clinic, volume 104, number 11, page 238:",
          "text": "We endure our abuses of orphanotrophism even when they are repulsive to the heathen Chinee.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person from China."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ethnic",
          "ethnic"
        ],
        [
          "slur",
          "slur"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Chinese Pidgin English",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, offensive, Chinese Pidgin English, ethnic slur) A person from China."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "ethnic",
        "offensive",
        "slur"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃaɪniː/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Chinee"
}

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