chopstick land

noun

China.

Meanings

noun
  1. slangChina.

    F. F. Low, our new Minister to Chopstickland (China), has started for his post.

    1870 January 22, The Weekly Arizona Miner, Prescott, Ar., page 3, column 4
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    In "Music in Chopstick Land" I wrote about Chinese music but I forgot to tell you that the Chinese have a very clever way of bowing their fiddles.

    1927 August 29, Henry Purmont Eames, “Fiddles, Flutes, and Drums”, in Child Life, New York, page 470, column 2

    Chiang Kai Sheck & The Kuomintang Would Point Otherwise To Existing 60 Million Slaughtered, Let Alone The Abortion Habits Of Chopstick Land.

    2011 November 25, Ras Mikaere Enoch Mc Carty, “Key's Crying Baby an omen for NZ”, in nz.general (Usenet)
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