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gook

noun

A person from the Far East, Oceania or Southeast Asia, in particular a Vietnamese, Filipino, Chinese, Korean person.

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When Faunia's ex-husband cannot dine in a Chinese restaurant without wanting to strangle the "gook" waiters 30 years after returning from Vietnam, Mr Roth simply feeds an overwrought stereotype.Good novels are magic.

Is it a more hurtful racial epithet than insults such as kike, wop, wetback, mick, chink, and gook?

McMaster ordered his soldiers never to swear in front of Iraqis or call them "hajjis" in a derogatory way (this war's version of "gook").

But it was the "gook" part of the equation that truly mystified him.

This was the scent of pleasure, of unwinding after work, of civility, the scent of a country where people would never dream of calling their next-door neighbor a gook motherfucker or anything else, for that matter.

The one that called me a gook?" "A gook motherfucker," Colin corrected.

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He responded with a concurrence that said that Breyer's "argument is full of internal contradictions and (it must be said) gobbledy-gook".

Assad was described for Vogue purposes in sycophantic cliche-ridden copy-approved (I would guess) gobble-de-gook as a "rose in the desert".

Rather than propagating this kind of repressive effect, why don't you build a cinema with 10,000 seats, so everyone can chant 'Dae-Han-Min-Gook!' (long live great Korea!)?" Perhaps this was sour grapes from a wilful arthouse tearaway.

For a more down-to-earth nerd-out, Tokyo's Akihabara district is to geeks what San Francisco's Castro Street is to the LGBT community.

Related: Amtrak crash: safety mechanism to slow speeding trains was close to operational Gaines worked as a staffer with the news agency for 17 years, his colleagues fondly referring to him as a "geek's geek", in the wire's announcement of his death.

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