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Example sentences for: mee
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To call a brown-skinned person a gook may be reinforced by words in his own language, Chinese Mee Gook for “beautiful country,” or Korean Myguk (My = “America” + guk = “country”), but the word is extraordinarily derogatory, reinforced by, if not derived from the common English slang gobbledegook (the brown man's language) and gook (his food).
Based on the above I believe that Mr. Henn is probably correct in attributing Gook to an East Asian Mee Gook, for all of the area by the time of the T'ang was culturally if not politically under the sway of the Central Kingdom (Chungkuo).
To begin with, Mr. Henn's Mee Gook apparently is both Cantonese and Korean!
An old friend of mine who worked on the Guardian maintains that we ought to be thankful that Arthur Mee's Children's Newspaper is no longer with us.