Shantungese

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noun

A person from Shandong, China.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounShantungese (plural Shantungese)
  1. in pluralA person from Shandong, China.

    It would be a crime for a Shantungese to love any Japanese. Matricide! One does not love him who ravishes his mother.

    1924, Louise Jordan Miln, In a Shantung Garden, page 158
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    He then goes on to tell about their favorite Communist General, Holung, and states that they convinced him that Holung was a very extraordinary man whom they described as “big as a Shantungese, heavy as a restaurant cook but quick[…]"

    1953, Joseph McCarthy, Major Speeches and Debates of Senator Joe McCarthy Delivered in the United States Senate, 1950-1951, page 118

    Popular mobilization was facilitated by strong anti-Japanese sentiment dating most immediately to 1931—many Shantungese had relatives in Manchuria.

    1976, John Israel, Donald W. Klein, Rebels and Bureaucrats: China's December 9ers, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 147–148

    They shouted at Old Chao to wake him out of his deep sleep and sent him to Pao-t'ai Street to buy a few pounds of machine-extruded noodles at a shop run by a Shantungese. When he got back, he looked around in the kitchen for leftover[…]

    1994 January 1, Chen-hua, In Search of the Dharma: Memoirs of a Modern Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 83

    ... perhaps an example in this connection will suffice: "Those who talk about the history of Kirin will always come upon Han Pien-wai or Han the Frontier man, of Chiapikou (ཀྵⳞ⋏). Han had been a Shantungese and was of great ability.[…]"

    2014 October 21, Guangdan Pan, Socio-biological Implications of Confucianism, Springer, →ISBN, page 196

Origin

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