Chinee
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He paves original roads in stand-up by referring to an entire group of people as “Chinee” for no purpose other than saying it that way.
From Salon
On my third day, I arrived at school and was walking down the hallway when this girl walked briskly up to me and said within hearing distance of my teacher and the younger class girls: “You spoke Chinee to a Chinee beggar and that makes you Chinee.”
From Time
“And more troubling, I found one app that appeared to be a Chinee counterfeit.”
From Forbes
"Me b'lieve Chinee joss pigeon, too," added Yen cheerfully.
From Project Gutenberg
It is a confused system of literary classification which does not permit calling these tales of Harte and Kipling poetry, but crowns the same writers' doggerel verses like The Heathen Chinee and Fuzzy Wuzzy with the title "poems."
From Project Gutenberg
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