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A number of dictionaries have provided different suggestions as to the origin of chink, there is similar cloudiness about the name China so the discussion reduces to guesswork.
Although some of these suggestions are that it originated from the Chinese courtesy ching-ching, or that the word evolved from the other meaning of chink, which is a small crevice, being a simile for small or slanted eyes (Sometimes, the word is indeed employed as an adjective, as in chink-eyed).
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