Meanings
nounChinee (plural Chinees)
plural Chinees
- datedethnicoffensiveslurChinese Pidgin EnglishA person from China.
We endure our abuses of orphanotrophism even when they are repulsive to the heathen Chinee.
1910 September 10, Bayard Holmes, “Orphanotrophism”, in The Lancet-clinic, volume 104, number 11, page 2381 more example
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.
1870, Bret Harte, Plain Language from Truthful James
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Back-formation from Chinese, using -ee.
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APA
Chinee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chinee
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“Chinee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chinee. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Chinee,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Chinee.
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