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YELLOW WOMAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does yellow woman mean?
• YELLOW WOMAN (noun)
The noun YELLOW WOMAN has 1 sense:
1. offensive term for an Oriental woman
Familiarity information: YELLOW WOMAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Offensive term for an Oriental woman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("yellow woman" is a kind of...):
Oriental; oriental person (a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans))
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
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