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1. banh mi, n. View full entry 1985
...In Vietnamese cuisine: a sandwich comprising a baguette (traditionally baked using a combination of rice and wheat flour) split lengthwise and filled with a variety of ingredients, typically including pâté and/or grilled...
2. bashaw, n. View full entry 1534
...The earlier form of the Turkish title pasha...
3. bong, n.3 View full entry 1971
...A kind of water-pipe used for smoking marijuana....
4. China, n.1 and adj. View full entry 1555
...The country so called, in Asia....
5. Cossack, n. View full entry 1587
...Name of a warlike Turkish people now subject to Russia, occupying the parts north of the Black Sea. From them the Poles organized a body of light horsemen, in which capacity they...
6. honcho, n. View full entry 1947
...Originally, the leader of a small group or squad; hence, anyone in charge in any situation; the ‘boss’. Hence as trans., to oversee; to be in charge of....
7. Maru, n. View full entry 1903
...As a pre- or postmodifier: designating a Japanese merchant ship. Hence in Naut.slang (U.S.): a Japanese (or, by extension, U.S.) ship of any kind....
8. Mikado, n. View full entry 1727
...In Western use: the emperor of Japan. Cf. dairi, the name more often used before the mid 19th cent. Now hist....
9. moose, n.3 View full entry 1953
...A young Japanese or Korean woman, esp. one who is the wife or mistress of a U.S. serviceman stationed in Japan or Korea....
10. Nippon, n. (and adj.) View full entry 1614
...gen. Designating people or things originating from or associated with Japan. rare before 20th cent....
11. papasan, n. View full entry a1906
...An adult male native or inhabitant of East Asia, orig. and chiefly in Japan; spec. a father or other man in a position of authority (sometimes as a form of...
12. sampan, n.1 View full entry 1620
...A Chinese word meaning ‘boat’, applied by Europeans in the China seas to any small boat of Chinese pattern....
13. skosh, n. View full entry 1959
...A little, a small amount; freq. used advb. in the expression a skosh, slightly, somewhat....
14. tycoon, n. View full entry 1857
...The title by which the shogun of Japan was described to foreigners....
15. yen, n.2 View full entry 1876
...The craving of a drug-addict for his drug (orig. for opium). (See also quots. 1929, 1937.)...
16. yen, n.3 View full entry 1882
...Opium....
17. yen-yen, n. View full entry 1886
...A craving for opium, the ‘opium-habit’....
