Kung Flu
English
Etymology
Pun on kung fu.
Noun
Kung Flu (uncountable)
- (humorous, possibly offensive) A notional sickness that (Asian) martial artists catch (in jokes). [since at least the 1980s]
- 1988, Joseph Rosenbloom, The world's best sports riddles and jokes, Sterling Publishing (NY) (→ISBN):
- What is small, round and green and knows karate? Bruce Pea.
- What sickness did Bruce Lee get every winter? Kung Flu.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:Kung Flu.
- 1988, Joseph Rosenbloom, The world's best sports riddles and jokes, Sterling Publishing (NY) (→ISBN):
- (humorous, offensive) COVID-19 [2020] (This is a hot sense, kept provisionally)
Further reading
List of incidents of xenophobia and racism related to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic#United States on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Lukfung