Chinkey, Chinkie, Chinky slang.
(ˈtʃɪŋkɪ)
[f. Chink n.5 + -ie, -y6.]
= Chink n.5 (Derogatory.)
| 1879 W. J. Barry Up & Down vii. 51 We..had a good passage to Hong-Kong. When we arrived, the first Chinese war with Britain had broken out, and there was every appearance of plenty of fun to be shortly had with the Chinkies. 1882 A. J. Boyd Old Colonials 233 The pleasant traits of character in our colonialised ‘Chinkie’, as he is vulgarly termed. 1899 Boxall Austral. Bushrangers 241 They rode straight to the Chinese camp at Wombat, ‘to give the Chinkies a lesson’. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 26 Sept. 6/1 The farmers getting a reward of {pstlg}1 for each ‘Chinkey’ they turn over to the police. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo xvi. 351 Brother Brown and Chinky and all the rest: the Indians in India, the niggers in the Transvaal. 1945 [see chow-chow n. 3]. 1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 353 A certain Chinkie. |