Chinese-ish

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Adjective

Chinese-ish (comparative more Chinese-ish, superlative most Chinese-ish)

  1. (informal) Somewhat Chinese.
    • 1996 March 25, Jeff Templon, “Netscape spontaneously changes font to Chinese or Somesuch”, in comp.os.linux.x (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-12:
      Thanks but this is a real problem. The chineseish text (which we've since learned is not chinese) appears to be from some problem with the ATI Mach64 X windows server. Anybody with a solution, please respond.
    • 2001 March 14, Jack B, “Soy Sauce Question”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-12:
      Twinky, yeah... I see traces of ketchup in quite a few Chinese-ish recipes.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chinese-ish.