John Chinaman
English
Proper noun
- (now offensive) A Chinese man; the Chinese people generally.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 193:
- My head was full of stories about John Chinaman: opium, slavery, how they ate the hands of Christian babies.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 193:
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