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Chinaman|ˈtʃaɪnəmən|
[f. China1 3, 1.]
1. A dealer in porcelain.
1772Lond. Directory, Brown William, China-man, 1 Aldgate. 1800New Ann. Direct. 79 Fogg and Son, Chinamen. 1819P.O. Lond. Direct. 123 Fogg, R., Chinaman.
2. A native of China.
1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Resources Wks. (Bohn) III. 198 The disgust of California has not been able to drive nor kick the Chinaman back to the home. 1872Medhurst Foreigner in Far Cathay xi, John Chinaman is a most temperate creature.
3. Chinaman's chance colloq. (chiefly U.S.), a very poor or negligible prospect (of gain, survival, etc.); the least chance. Chinaman's hat, collectors' name for a gastropod shell, also called Cup-and-Saucer.
1854Woodward Mollusca (1856) 152 The recent Trochita Sinensis—the ‘Chinaman's hat’ of collectors—is found on the southern shores of England. 1914Call (San Francisco) 30 Apr. 6 The poor boob ain't got a Chinaman's chance. 1915‘Ian Hay’ First Hundred Thousand vi. 50 The Service Battalions..must be led by the officers who have trained them if they are to have a Chinaman's chance when we go out. 1926H. C. Witwer Roughly Speaking iii. 80 Just make out we're a couple of big brothers—we know full well we ain't got a Chinaman's chance to be nothin' else to you! 1951F. Yerby Woman called Fancy (1952) x. 193 You haven't a Chinaman's chance of raising that money in Boston.
4. Cricket. A left-handed bowler's offbreak to a right-handed batsman (see also quots.).
1937Daily Herald 3 Feb. 14/1 The Yorkshire lefthander..has frequently broken up a big partnership with his ‘chinamen’. 1955Miller & Whitington Cricket Typhoon i. ii. 32 In..Yorkshire, the ‘Chinaman’ is regarded as the lefthand bowler's off-break... In Australia..the ‘Chinaman’ is..the left-hander's googly. 1963Times 11 May 9/7, I understand the ‘Chinaman’ to be simply an off break bowled out of the back or side of the hand by a left-handed bowler—that is, the ball comes in to a right-handed batsman from the off and the left-handed bowler's action in bowling is equivalent to that of the right-hander in bowling a leg break. I believe the term was first used in referring to this style of bowling practised before the last War by Ellis Achong, who, although he played for the West Indies, was in fact a Chinese. |