John Chinaman
English
Proper noun
John Chinaman
- (now offensive) A Chinese man; the Chinese people generally.
- 1840 March 25, The Colonist, page 2, column 1:
- John Chinaman is playing the devil with us shipmasters of the English nation.
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 234:
- The simple cup of tea, and frugal meal of rice and salt fish, are the principal factors to " John Chinaman's " success wherever he goes.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 193:
- My head was full of stories about John Chinaman: opium, slavery, how they ate the hands of Christian babies.
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Synonyms
- Johnny Chinaman