Chinee

noun
/ˈt͡ʃaɪniː/

Etymology

Back-formation from Chinese, using -ee.

Definitions

  1. A person from China.

    • 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.
    • We endure our abuses of orphanotrophism even when they are repulsive to the heathen Chinee.

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