Citations:chin-chin
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English citations of chin-chin
Verb
[edit]- 1860, The Englishman in China, London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., page 102:
- On the 16th (China New Year’s day falling this year about our 1st of March), I went up to Loong-wha, about eight miles up the river, to a famous pagoda, famous not from its beauty, but from the supposition that on this day it is inhabited by the particular Joss who presides over fruitful matrons; and thither come young and old women to pray, chin-chin, and offer presents, in order to propitiate this deity.
Noun
[edit]- 1836 January, “Jargon spoken at Canton: how it originated and has grown into use; mode in which the Chinese learn English; examples of the language in common use between foreigners and Chinese”, in The Chinese Repository, volume IV, number 9, page 433:
- A personage, weighing full twelve stone, and showing his good keeping by a full round face, made his apperance, and introduced himself with a chin-chin, saying, ‘my sabbee velly well, can fixee that book alla proper.’