"Chinese-ish" meaning in English

See Chinese-ish in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more Chinese-ish [comparative], most Chinese-ish [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj|head=Chinese-ish}} Chinese-ish (comparative more Chinese-ish, superlative most Chinese-ish)
  1. (informal) Somewhat Chinese. Tags: informal Categories (place): China Synonyms: Chineseish
    Sense id: en-Chinese-ish-en-adj-siYT9XsC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for Chinese-ish meaning in English (1.5kB)

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        {
          "kind": "place",
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          "name": "China",
          "orig": "en:China",
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            "Asia",
            "Earth",
            "Eurasia",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996 March 25, Jeff Templon, “Netscape spontaneously changes font to Chinese or Somesuch”, in comp.os.linux.x (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-12",
          "text": "Thanks but this is a real problem. The chineseish text (which we've since learned is not chinese) appears to be from some problem with the ATI Mach64 X windows server. Anybody with a solution, please respond.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 March 14, Jack B, “Soy Sauce Question”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-12",
          "text": "Twinky, yeah... I see traces of ketchup in quite a few Chinese-ish recipes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Somewhat Chinese."
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        "(informal) Somewhat Chinese."
      ],
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          "word": "Chineseish"
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        "informal"
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    },
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      "tags": [
        "superlative"
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          "ref": "1996 March 25, Jeff Templon, “Netscape spontaneously changes font to Chinese or Somesuch”, in comp.os.linux.x (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-12",
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          "ref": "2001 March 14, Jack B, “Soy Sauce Question”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-12",
          "text": "Twinky, yeah... I see traces of ketchup in quite a few Chinese-ish recipes.",
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        "(informal) Somewhat Chinese."
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