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chinkynoun
A Chinese takeaway restaurant
chinkynoun
A Chinese person
chinkyadjective
Full of chinks, laden with small cracks or openings
chinkyadjective
Full of Chinese persons
chinkyadjective
Possessing attributes of, or similar to, a chink or Chinese person, style, or culture
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Chinkyadjective
Full of holes; gaping; opening into narrow clefts.
Etymology: from chink.
But plaister thou the chinky hives with clay. John Dryden, Virg. Geo.
Grimalkin, to domestick vermin sworn
An everlasting foe, with watchful eye
Lies nightly brooding o’er a chinky gap,
Protending her fell claws, to thoughtless mice
Sure ruin. John Philips, Poems.
Webster Dictionary
Chinkyadjective
full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts
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Chinky
In the United Kingdom, chinky is a slang name for a Chinese takeaway restaurant or the meal that one buys from such a restaurant. Chinky is the adjectival form of chink and, like chink, is a highly offensive ethnic slur for Chinese and other Asian people. After several campaigns by the Scottish Executive, more people in Scotland now acknowledge that this name is indirectly racist. However, the Broadcasting Standards Commission held in 2002, after a complaint about the BBC One programme The Vicar of Dibley, that when used as the name of a type of restaurant or meal, rather than as an adjective applied to a person or group of people, the word carries no racist connotation. In a document commissioned by OFCOM titled "Language and Sexual Imagery in Broadcasting: A Contextual Investigation" their definition of Chink was "...a term of racial offence/abuse. However, this is polarising. Older and mainly white groups tend to think this is not usually used in an abusive way - e.g. let's go to the Chinky - which is not seen as offensive; younger groups and those from ethnic minorities feel this could be as insulting as 'paki' or 'nigger'."
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of chinky in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of chinky in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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