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tuckessee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 10:58 PM
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288. "Gook" is older than the Korean War.
I've seen contemporary WW2 lit using the term in reference to Japanese.

No one is sure from where the term originated but it was common among China Marines in the 20's & 30's. They may have inherited the term from the Phillipines.

General definition meant "small, strange, funny, foreign".

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