chinaman
/ˈt͡ʃɑenəmən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.46 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A spin bowler who uses such an action.
noun
A sailing ship of the 18th and 19th centuries engaged in the Old China Trade.
Example Sentences
- "Several cricketers came up to them and asked Pradeep about his effortless action mimicry and his promising chinaman bowling."
- "A disorderly Chinaman is rare, and a lazy one does not exist. So long as a Chinaman has strength to use his hands he needs no support from anybody; white men often complain of want of work, but a Chinaman offers no such complaint; he always manages to find something to do.[…]Any white man can swear a Chinaman’s life away in the courts, but no Chinaman can testify against a white man."
- "Another favorite pastime of the Highbinder who is usually a loafer, is to levy blackmail on a wealthy Chinaman.[…]If it were not that the Chinamen kill only men of their own race and let alone all other men, the citizens of San Francisco would have sacked and burned Chinatown."
- "On the flat behind the mill, dawn-rising Chinamen shogged with nimble bare feet under their yoke-linked watering-cans. These busy brethren, meeting sometimes on the same narrow track, would pause, ant-like, seemingly to dumbly regard one another and their burdens, then, still ant-like, pass silently to their work."
- ""It is my fly-trap!" shrieked the Chinaman. "And I am the god of destruction!""
- "The carts rattle by, swinging from side to side; two Chinamen lollop along under their wooden yokes with the straining vegetable baskets—their pigtails and blue blouses fly out in the wind."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈt͡ʃɑenəmən/
Usage
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Derived Forms
Phrases
Chinaman's chance
Chinaman's chance in hell
Chinaman's Hat
Chinaman's Peak
John Chinaman
Johnny Chinaman
must have killed a Chinaman