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English
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Etymology
From China + boy; compare Chinaman (etymology).
Pronunciation
Noun
Chinaboy (plural Chinaboys)
- (obsolete, now offensive, ethnic slur) A boy who is Chinese; a (young) man from China or of Chinese descent.
1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXII, in The Confidence-Man, page 181:I speak from fifteen years' experience; five and thirty boys; American, Irish, English, German, African, Mulatto; not to speak of that China boy sent me by one who well knew my perplexities, from California; and that Lascar boy from Bombay.
1898, Fergus Hume, chapter IV, in Hagar of the Pawn-Shop:In answer to their knock, a sleek, soft-footed China-boy, dressed in a blue indigo-hued blouse and with his pigtail down, appeared to admit them.
- (obsolete, now offensive) A houseboy from China or of Chinese descent.
1942, Emily Carr, “British Columbia Nightingale”, in The Book of Small:Lizzie, Alice and I were playing in the garden when our Chinaboy Bong came down the path—that is how I know exactly what time of evening it was that this new noise set me wondering, because Bong was very punctual.