chopstick n.1
(A us./US black) a derog. term for an East Asian person, esp. Chinese.
![]() | Launceston Advertiser (Tas.) 11 Apr. 119/2: [A] chop-stick, who came to my lodging to talk to me about the mode of harvesting and preserving the corn. | |
![]() | Maitland Mercury (NSW) 13 Mar. 4/3: Every horse you possess having no action, or which a day's journey would knock up, (to be found in lots far more numerous than the Chinamen as yet,) ought to be turned out to fatten; when plump, take the animal into the nearest station, occupied by these chopsticks. | |
![]() | ‘Momus’ Misc. 76: You’d ne’er a finer pigtail see / Than that of Chopstick Chickoree [...] Whenever Chopstick walked along / The folks would follow in a throng. | |
![]() | implied below. | |
![]() | Runnin’ Down Some Lines 232: chopstick Asian person. | |
![]() | Falling in Love 50: ‘How cool is that, Chong? Wolverine is in the house.’ ‘Wolver this, you chopstick’. |
In compounds
China.
![]() | Wkly Arizona Miner (Prescott, AZ) 22 Jan. 3/4: F. F. Low, our new Minister to Chopstickland (China), has started for his post. | |
![]() | Day Book (Chicago) 1 Aug. 31/1: It is the utter opposite of Chinese drama. In the chopstick-land a play lasts for three whole days. | |
![]() | ‘Fiddles, Flutes, and Drums’ in Child Life (NY) Aug. 470/2: In ‘Music in Chopstick Land’ I wrote about Chinese music but I forgot to tell you that the Chinese have a very clever way of bowing their fiddles. |
SE in sl. use
In phrases
very thin legs.
![]() | Profile of Glindy 96: For if ever a little fellow tried to overcome his handicapped back and chopstick-legs, for three long weeks, the ‘Little Boy of Brongest’ [a dog] certainly did. | |
![]() | Moon Runner 21: Ü5 Don't worry - you'll do fine. You've got those long, chopstick legs,’ he said to Mina. |