单词 | chinky |
释义 | Chinkyn. slang. Now usually considered offensive. 1. Usually derogatory. A person of Chinese birth or descent; (also more generally) a person of East Asian or South-East Asian birth or descent.Earliest in Australian use. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > the Chinese > [noun] > native or inhabitant of China Cathayan?1520 Chinean1577 Son of Heaven1579 Chino1588 chinois1594 Chinese1606 Chinesianc1615 Chinaman1621 China1638 Chinist1654 Chinensian1655 pigtail1823 celestial1842 Johnny1844 coolie1849 John1853 Chinky1871 chow1872 Chink1880 monk1903 Pong1910 power point1986 1871 Ovens & Murray Advertiser (Beechworth, Victoria) 15 Apr. A river claim owned by Messrs D. T. Hughes and Blair, near Freeburgh, and worked by a squad of Chinkies, is the only novelty. 1899 G. E. Boxall Story Austral. Bushrangers 241 They rode straight to the Chinese camp at Wombat, ‘to give the Chinkies a lesson’. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 26 Sept. 6/1 The farmers getting a reward of £1 for each ‘Chinkey’ they turn over to the police. 1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 353 A certain Chinkie. 2013 @Edwardwing 1 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 3 Jan. 2020) My new neighbour is a Chinkie, I wonder how much of my post he is gonna end up with? 2. Chiefly British. a. A restaurant or takeaway selling Chinese food. ΚΠ 1981 Spectator 21 Feb. 12/1 The Reverend Ian Paisley's hometown, Ballymena, is so fanatically Protestant that the ‘chinky’, or Chinese restaurant, is called after Cromwell and offers a speciality of the house—Oliver's Chow Mien. 1993 I. Welsh Trainspotting 306 Three guys stagger oot ay a pub and intae a Chinky. 1995 N. Whittaker Platform Souls (1996) xiv. 126 I made my way back to the hostel, stopping off for egg fried rice from the Chinkie. b. As a count noun: a meal served at a Chinese restaurant; a takeaway Chinese meal. As a mass noun: Chinese food. ΚΠ 1983 Daily Tel. 10 Nov. 15/6 Junkies liable to..thieve your downers and perhaps your chinky. 1985 J. Kelman Chancer (1987) 13 Happening? What d'you mean happening—nothing's happening apart from a chinky, we're all going for a chinky. 2007 T. Azzopardi Winterton Blue (2008) x. 75 You can have chinky from here if you'd rather, he said, pushing the door open, Or a curry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). chinkyadj.1 Characterized by, or full of, chinks. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective] > broken > split, cleft, or cracked rivena1325 crazeda1400 cracked1503 rifty1547 slived1548 rived1581 crazen1596 sprung1597 rifted1602 sliftered1602 flawed1639 chinky1645 slaven1688 sliven1688 cracky1725 reft1763 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xxiii. 45 Those Rayes..scorch and parch this chinky gaping soyl. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 124 Plaister thou their chinky Hives with Clay. View more context for this quotation a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) I. 327 The vapours..trickle downwards into the chinky bed of the hills. 1863 P. S. Worsley Poems & Transl. 156 And, torn from its familiar flood, The chinky pinnace rots apace. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Chinkyadj.2 colloquial (originally Australian). Usually derogatory and offensive. Chiefly in attributive use. Relating to, characteristic of, resembling, or suggestive of a Chinese person or Chinese people; Chinese. Also more generally: East or South-East Asian. ΚΠ 1873 Austral. Town & Country Jrnl. (Sydney) 16 Aug. 14/3 The road to this place, after passing through ‘Chinkey Town’, a hideous [l]ot of dirty Chinese huts, all sadly in want of the purifying fire-stick, follows the creek. 1912 M. Antin Promised Land xiii. 261 Had we been boys, I suppose Bessie and Sadie and the rest of us would have been a ‘gang’, and would have popped into the Chinese laundry to tease ‘Chinky Chinamen’. 1992 Harper's Mag. Oct. 40/1 You look at Toots and see a speakeasy vet, dense of body, with slicked-back hair and a set of chinky eyes that summon up a warning in a hurry. 2019 @oIivishye 18 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 6 Jan. 2020) Oomfs are subtweeting like as if brandon didn't called me a chinky asian girl but ok. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1871adj.11645adj.21873 |
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