of or pertaining to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), its people, or their language
noun
2.
a native or inhabitant of Ceylon
Word origin
[1790–1800; ceylon + -ese]This word is first recorded in the period 1790–1800. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cutout, echelon, methodology, modular, peanut-ese is a suffix forming adjectival derivatives of place names, esp. countries or cities;frequently used nominally to denote the inhabitants of the place or their language(Faroese; Japanese; Vietnamese; Viennese). By analogy with such language names, -ese occurs in coinages denoting in a disparaging, often facetious way a characteristicjargon, style, or accent (Brooklynese; bureaucratese; journalese; computerese)