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ricecel

ricecel noun: an incel of East Asian (especially Chinese) heritage.

Noun

ricecel (plural ricecels)

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur, incel slang) An incel of East Asian (especially Chinese) heritage.
    • As with some other incel terms, this manages to come remarkably close to a structural critique of racism and white supremacy, but the underlying reasoning that ricecels use is almost always grounded in the evolutionary psychology of women, rather than socially constructed structures of oppression.2020, Whiteaker A. James, “The Story of the 'Incel Saint': A Rhetorical Analysis of Elliot Rodger's My Twisted World”, in Shayna Engdahl, editor, Source 2020: Conference Proceedings, page 150
    • Bitter pill to swallow for ricecels: we are inferior to white men in every possible way.2022 June, Ksenija Bogetic, anonymous quotee, “Race and the language of incels: Figurative neologisms in an emerging English cryptolect”, in English Today, volume 39, number 2

Forms of ricecel

pluralricecels

Origin of ricecel

From rice + -cel, referencing the fact that rice is a staple food in East Asia.

Questions about ricecel

What does ricecel mean?
Ricecel means an incel of East Asian (especially Chinese) heritage.
What part of speech is ricecel?
Ricecel is a noun.
What is the plural of ricecel?
The plural of ricecel is ricecels.

Words near ricecel in the dictionary

  1. ricebird
  2. ricebirds
  3. ricebowl
  4. riceburger
  5. riceburgers
  6. ricecel
  7. ricecels
  8. ricecracker
  9. ricecrackers
  10. riced
  11. riced out

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