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Chinese Pidgin English
Etymology
joss (“god”) + pidgin (“business”) + man (“man”).
Noun
joss-pidgin-man
- a priest, a missionary, a religious person
- 1875, James Fowler Rusling, Across America; or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast
- 1944, Robert A. Hall, Jr., Chinese Pidgin English Grammar and Texts, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 64, No. 3
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