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English

Alternative forms

• Mongoloid (especially the racial classification)

Etymology

Mongol +? -oid

Noun

mongoloid (plural mongoloids)

1. (anthropology, dated, offensive) A member of the racial classification of humanity composed of peoples native to North Asia, Central Asia, East Asia, Pacific Oceania, and the Americas, as well as their diaspora in other parts of the world.
   • 1997, Masatoshi Nei, Arun K. Roychoudhury, Genetic Relationship and Evolution of Human Races, page 38,

     As before, the genetic distance between Caucasoid and Mongoloid is the smallest and that between Negroid and Mongoloid is the largest.

2. (now offensive) A person with Down syndrome.
   • 1967, W. Wolfensberger, 13: Counseling Parents of the Retarded, Alfred A. Baumeister (editor), Ameliorating Mental Disability: Questioning Retardation, 2009, page 376,

     Kirman (1953) drew attention to some physicians' reluctance to offer even ordinary and routine medical care to mongoloids, whose treatment they consider a waste of time.
3. (offensive) Idiot, retard; a general term of abuse, due to association with Down syndrome.

Usage notes

Due to associations with old racial (and racist) theories (as with Caucasoid, Negroid), and associations with Down syndrome, the term is highly offensive.

Derived terms

• (idiot, retard): mong, mongo (British, chiefly Scottish)

Related terms

• Mongol
• Mongolian
• mongolism

Translations

See also

• Australoid
• Caucasoid
• negroid

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m???olo??i?t/

Adjective

mongoloid (not comparable)

1. (somewhat dated) affected by the Down syndrome; mongoloid

Usage notes

• The German adjective is not usually considered offensive, or at most very slightly so. Nevertheless, constructions with Downsyndrom are now more common.

Derived terms

• Mongo

See also

• mongolid (“of the Mongoloid race”)

Finnish

Verb

kuki

1. Indicative present connegative form of kukkia.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of kukkia.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of kukkia.

Anagrams

• kiku, ukki

Ido

Noun

kuki

1. plural of kuko

Japanese

Romanization

kuki

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

kuki (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. dative/locative singular of kuka

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

kuki (n class, plural kuki)

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