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Shandonger

Shandonger noun: a native or inhabitant of Shandong, China.

Noun

Shandonger (plural Shandongers)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Shandong, China.
    • He ridiculed the ignorance of party officials, referring to them disparagingly as "this bunch of Shandongers" and so forth, who "don't know anything but live off the [Communist] party."1994, Julia F. Andrews, Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949–1979, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 199
    • We can divide 1.3 billion people into different groups, say, geographically into thirty groups such as Henaners, Hebeiers, Shandongers, Shanxiers, Beijingers.2017, Zhang Weiying, translated by Gao Qian, The Road Leading to the Market, Abingdon: Routledge, →ISBN, page 3

Examples of Shandonger in a sentence

  • The internal forces, "famine, unrest, and overpopulation [...] summarized the hostile living environment, which trapped most Shandongers in abject poverty".2020, Zhang Yan, translated by Ernest Leung, “The British Recruitment Campaign for the Chinese Labour Corps during the First World War and...
  • As I am a Shandonger, notorious for their stubborn northern accent, the comment I often received was 'How come you don't have an accent?'2024, Yue Zhao, Qian Gong, “The unbearable weight of the accent”, in Sender Dovchin, Qian Gong, Toni Dobinson, Maggie McAlinden, editors...

Forms of Shandonger

pluralShandongers

Origin of Shandonger

From Shandong + -er.

Questions about Shandonger

What does Shandonger mean?
Shandonger means a native or inhabitant of Shandong, China.
How do you use Shandonger in a sentence?
The internal forces, "famine, unrest, and overpopulation [...] summarized the hostile living environment, which trapped most Shandongers in abject poverty".
What part of speech is Shandonger?
Shandonger is a noun.
What is the plural of Shandonger?
The plural of Shandonger is Shandongers.

Words near Shandonger in the dictionary

  1. Shandley
  2. Shandon
  3. shandon beni
  4. Shandong
  5. Shandong Peninsula
  6. Shandonger
  7. Shandongers
  8. Shandra
  9. shandries
  10. shandry
  11. shandrydan

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