Several cricketers came up to them and asked Pradeep about his effortless action mimicry and his promising chinaman bowling.
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Chinaman
//ˈt͡ʃaɪnəmən//
Synonyms for "chinaman" (8 found)
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19 translations across 14 languages.
Danish
2 entries- kinamand noun (a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man)
- kineser noun (a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man)
Finnish
1 entries- kinukki noun (a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man)
French
1 entries- Chinois noun (a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man)
German
1 entries- Chinese noun (a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man)
Greek
1 entries- Κινέζος noun (a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man)
Hawaiian
1 entries- Pākē noun (a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man)
Indonesian
2 entries- orang Cina noun (a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man)
- singkek noun (a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- kinamann noun (a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man)
- kineser noun (a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- kinamann noun (a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man)
- kinesar noun (a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man)
Polish
1 entries- chinol noun (a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man)
Romanian
2 entries- chinez noun (a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man)
- chinezoi noun (a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man)
Russian
1 entries- китаец noun (a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man)
Spanish
1 entries- chino noun (a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man)
Yiddish
1 entries- כינעזער noun (a man who is Chinese, a Chinese man)
Sample sentences
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A disorderly Chinaman is rare, and a lazy one does not exist. So long as a Chinaman has strength to use his hands he needs no support from anybody; white men often complain of want of work, but a Chinaman offers no such complaint; he always manages to find something to do.[…]Any white man can swear a Chinaman’s life away in the courts, but no Chinaman can testify against a white man.
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Another favorite pastime of the Highbinder who is usually a loafer, is to levy blackmail on a wealthy Chinaman.[…]If it were not that the Chinamen kill only men of their own race and let alone all other men, the citizens of San Francisco would have sacked and burned Chinatown.
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On the flat behind the mill, dawn-rising Chinamen shogged with nimble bare feet under their yoke-linked watering-cans. These busy brethren, meeting sometimes on the same narrow track, would pause, ant-like, seemingly to dumbly regard one another and their burdens, then, still ant-like, pass silently to their work.
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