Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Chinaman.

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Examples

  • At lease half chinee or mongolian ancestry, he thought.

    Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973

  • At lease half chinee or mongolian ancestry, he thought.

    Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973

  • At lease half chinee or mongolian ancestry, he thought.

    Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973

  • At lease half chinee or mongolian ancestry, he thought.

    Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973

  • Joan's like that chinee plate 'pon the bracket, wi' the pickshers o 'Saltash Burdge' pon en, an 'gold writin' under; an 'Mary's like that pie-dish, what you put in the ubben a while back.

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • “Those are questions, my dear,” said she, smilingly, “for the 'heathen chinee' to ask — not us.”

    Daughter of Two Lands 1909

  • The same held true for red bean cakes - called, without political correctness, "chinee cake" in the islands - almond cookies and other Chinese sweets baked in a traditional style.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • The same held true for red bean cakes - called, without political correctness, "chinee cake" in the islands - almond cookies and other Chinese sweets baked in a traditional style.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • The same held true for red bean cakes - called, without political correctness, "chinee cake" in the islands - almond cookies and other Chinese sweets baked in a traditional style.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Seriously, you may as well just buy a racing game for your video games console and it would be three times more enjoyable without those pesky actors getting in the way. mcnertny Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 08: 03 AM EST it sucked yo, ,where all the chinee from the tokyo movie

    Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider 2009

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  • Vexample: "I hear the chinee VGs aren't meeting their QC goals. " — The Truth About Cars

    The truth is that it's a reader comment on a blog post on the site thetruthaboutcars.com, not an 'official' bit of site content despite the way the vexample engine submits it.

    November 25, 2009