Meaning

5 senses

  1. (UK, offensive, slang)A Chinese takeaway restaurant.

  2. (UK, offensive, slang)A meal of Chinese food.

  3. (offensive, slang)A Chinese person.

  4. (offensive, slang)An East Asian person.

  5. (India, offensive, slang)A person from Northeast India.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. "Hey, chinky eyes!" "Why are you calling me that?"

    Amastan · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Origin

From chink (“Chinese person”) + -y.

From chink (“Chinese person”) + -y.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: chinkies

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
ChineseA2chinwagchipB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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