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  • adjective Somewhat Chinese; affecting a Chinese style.

Etymologies

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Chinese +‎ -y

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Examples

  • “Mrs. Ling called down all freaked out and yelling all Chinesey about a black bird smashing the window —”

    A Dirty Job HTML Moore, Christopher 2006

  • Everything that one sees around here is particularly "Chinesey."

    Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

  • In that same vein, Mayo Okamoto's "そのままの君でいて If you are still in" might have taken out the Chinesey sounding beginning and replaced it with a catchier back beat, but it is melodic phrase for melodic phrase ridiculously similar.

    Shanghaiist Elaine Chow 2010

  • In this remake of 1984's The Karate Kid, martial arts master Jackie Chan will enunciate the movie's moral - something about getting back on a horse, but it sounds more Chinesey - and then young Dre (Jaden Smith) will repeat it back at the appropriate moment, for audience members who've awakened from their naps.

    Colorado Springs Independent 2010

  • In this remake of 1984's The Karate Kid, martial arts master Jackie Chan will enunciate the movie's moral - something about getting back on a horse, but more Chinesey - and then young Dre (Jaden Smith) will repeat it back later, for audience members who've awakened from their naps.

    Colorado Springs Independent 2010

  • But its a real time for the kids who throng the streets banging on Drums and dressed up as those Chinesey type Lions / Dragons you see on the telly.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

  • Undeterred, Sharon Stone has decided to hold her own Sharon Stone Film Festival in her basement, and everyone’s invited – except for the Chinese, people who look a bit Chinesey, people who know all the words to Domo Arigato, Mr Roboto and anyone who doesn’t want to watch Catwoman, Sliver, Basic Instinct 2 and Police Academy 4 on a never-ending loop.

    Sharon Stone Banned From China For Being A Gigantic Div 2008

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