rice burnern.

Brit.

/ˈrʌɪs ˌbəːnə/, U.S.

/ˈraɪs ˌbərnər/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rice n.², burner n.

Etymology: < rice n.² + burner n. In sense 2 with reference to the supposed use of rice as ‘fuel’.

1. A person who burns rice or rice fields. rare.

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1917 Chicago Tribune 2 May 12/7 She had tried to boil rice five different times and burned it every time... The recipe I gave this young rice burner was this.

1966 N.Y. Times 22 May (Mag.) 114/2 It is especially the vision of the American G.I. as a rice burner that sticks in your craw... ‘You can be damn sure that this is V.C. rice.’

2. slang (originally U.S.). Usually depreciative (sometimes considered offensive).

a. An East Asian person.

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1935 M. Caniff in Chicago Tribune 8 Jan. 18/5 (cartoon caption) Hey! Down here, you rice burners!!.. We've got sumthin' for you!

1951 Winnipeg Free Press 16 Nov. 6/2 [We] couldn't have gotten along without our Korean ammunition bearers. Because they replaced ‘hay-burning’ mule pack trains, we called them rice-burners.

1970 Van Wert (Ohio) Times-Bull. 17 Nov. 4/7 I guess I'm a rice burner... But I'm not as lucky as the other rice burners, the Saigon girls, let's say, who married your troops in Vietnam.

1991 C. Roberts Combat Medic 145 Goddamned rice burners!

b. A motor vehicle (originally esp. a motorcycle) of Japanese manufacture.

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1973 Chopper July 37/1 By now, of course, I was hooked on Harleys and decided that the ‘riceburners’ were for beginners and chicks.

1992 Harper's Mag. Apr. 78/2 The disgusted biker who wanted the gallows for the perpetrators who stole his beloved Harley and replaced it with a ‘goddamned rice-burner’.

1994 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 28 Sept. 48 It's unlikely that any potential Citroen buyer would be seen dead in a rice-burner.

2003 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 13 July x. 19/1 Since when had the American muscle car given way to economy imports, cars once decried as ‘rice burners’?

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rice burner
释义	rice burnern. Brit. /ˈrʌɪs ˌbəːnə/, U.S. /ˈraɪs ˌbərnər/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rice n.², burner n. Etymology: < rice n.² + burner n. In sense 2 with reference to the supposed use of rice as ‘fuel’. 1. A person who burns rice or rice fields. rare. ΚΠ 1917 Chicago Tribune 2 May 12/7 She had tried to boil rice five different times and burned it every time... The recipe I gave this young rice burner was this. 1966 N.Y. Times 22 May (Mag.) 114/2 It is especially the vision of the American G.I. as a rice burner that sticks in your craw... ‘You can be damn sure that this is V.C. rice.’ 2. slang (originally U.S.). Usually depreciative (sometimes considered offensive). a. An East Asian person. ΚΠ 1935 M. Caniff in Chicago Tribune 8 Jan. 18/5 (cartoon caption) Hey! Down here, you rice burners!!.. We've got sumthin' for you! 1951 Winnipeg Free Press 16 Nov. 6/2 [We] couldn't have gotten along without our Korean ammunition bearers. Because they replaced ‘hay-burning’ mule pack trains, we called them rice-burners. 1970 Van Wert (Ohio) Times-Bull. 17 Nov. 4/7 I guess I'm a rice burner... But I'm not as lucky as the other rice burners, the Saigon girls, let's say, who married your troops in Vietnam. 1991 C. Roberts Combat Medic 145 Goddamned rice burners! b. A motor vehicle (originally esp. a motorcycle) of Japanese manufacture. ΚΠ 1973 Chopper July 37/1 By now, of course, I was hooked on Harleys and decided that the ‘riceburners’ were for beginners and chicks. 1992 Harper's Mag. Apr. 78/2 The disgusted biker who wanted the gallows for the perpetrators who stole his beloved Harley and replaced it with a ‘goddamned rice-burner’. 1994 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 28 Sept. 48 It's unlikely that any potential Citroen buyer would be seen dead in a rice-burner. 2003 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 13 July x. 19/1 Since when had the American muscle car given way to economy imports, cars once decried as ‘rice burners’? This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1917
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