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Shantungese

Shantungese noun: a person from Shandong, China.

Noun

Shantungese (plural Shantungese)

  1. (in plural) A person from Shandong, China.
    • It would be a crime for a Shantungese to love any Japanese. Matricide! One does not love him who ravishes his mother.1924, Louise Jordan Miln, In a Shantung Garden, page 158
    • He then goes on to tell about their favorite Communist General, Holung, and states that they convinced him that Holung was a very extraordinary man whom they described as “big as a Shantungese, heavy as a restaurant cook but quick[…]"1953, Joseph McCarthy, Major Speeches and Debates of Senator Joe McCarthy Delivered in the United States Senate, 1950-1951, page 118

Examples of Shantungese in a sentence

  • Popular mobilization was facilitated by strong anti-Japanese sentiment dating most immediately to 1931—many Shantungese had relatives in Manchuria.1976, John Israel, Donald W. Klein, Rebels and Bureaucrats: China's December 9ers, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC...
  • They shouted at Old Chao to wake him out of his deep sleep and sent him to Pao-t'ai Street to buy a few pounds of machine-extruded noodles at a shop run by a Shantungese.1994 January 1, Chen-hua, In Search of the Dharma: Memoirs of a Modern Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim, State University of New York Press, →ISBN...
  • Han had been a Shantungese and was of great ability.[…]"2014 October 21, Guangdan Pan, Socio-biological Implications of Confucianism, Springer, →ISBN, page 196:

Forms of Shantungese

pluralShantungese

Origin of Shantungese

From Shantung + -ese.

Questions about Shantungese

What does Shantungese mean?
Shantungese means a person from Shandong, China.
How do you use Shantungese in a sentence?
Popular mobilization was facilitated by strong anti-Japanese sentiment dating most immediately to 1931—many Shantungese had relatives in Manchuria.
What part of speech is Shantungese?
Shantungese is a noun.
What is the plural of Shantungese?
The plural of Shantungese is Shantungese.

Words near Shantungese in the dictionary

  1. shanto
  2. Shantou
  3. shants
  4. shantung
  5. Shantung Peninsula
  6. Shantungese
  7. shantungs
  8. shanty
  9. shanty back
  10. shanty backs
  11. shanty boy

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