yellowman

Y4E1L1L1O1W4M3A1N1

proper noun

A surname.

UncommonScrabble 17

Meanings

yellowman1

nounyellowman (plural yellowmen)

plural yellowmen

  1. alternativeAlternative form of yellow man.

    In the United States we see going on a commingling of types of mankind, of all nationalities, whitemen, blackmen, yellowmen, redmen, producing an amalgam […]

    1878 February 11, “This Newfoundland of Ours: A lecture delivered by the Rev. M. Harvey”, in Across Newfoundland with the Governor, page 104
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    That which the complaints of the ousted white labourers had been unable to effect — the expulsion of the yellowmen who undersold them in the labour-market […]

    1891, Francis William Bain, Antichrist: A Short Examination of the Spirit of the Age, page 95

    [If they] hope to prospect peaceably and thus avoid trouble with the yellowmen they will be disappointed; I know the pigtails too well, and I also know they have found something good or they wouldn't have risked a fight with such a party as we were.

    1909, Robert Maclauchlan Macdonald, Chillagoe Charlie, page 181

Yellowman2

proper nounYellowman (plural Yellowmans)

plural Yellowmans

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