Gook - Citations

Citations

• 1893 Slang and its Analogues, GOOK, subs. (American). A low prostitute. For synonyms, see BARRACK HACK and TART.

• 1920 The Nation, The Haitians in whose service United States marines are presumably restoring peace and order in Haiti are nicknamed "Gooks"...

• 1923 Le Slang, gook, a tramp: low:

• 1935 American Speech, Gook, anyone who speaks Spanish, particularly a Filipino.

• 1945 The American Language, The Marines who occupied Nicaragua in 1912 took to calling the natives gooks, one of their names for Filipinos.

• 1947 New York Herald Tribune (2 Apr.), The American troops...don’t like the Koreans – whom they prefer to call ‘Gooks’ – and, in the main, they don’t like Korea.

• 1950 Dimension X - The Potters of Firsk (Radio Show July 28, 1950 from the story by Jack Vance) Used multiple times by the Earthling supervisor to describe the indigenous population of planet Firsk.

• 1950 Los Angeles Times (Aug. 6, 1950) "Soldiers revive 'gook' as name for Korea reds" (headline)

• 1960 Dictionary of American Slang, gook Generically, a native of the Pacific islands, Africa, Japan, China, Korea or any European country except England; usually a brown-skinned or Oriental non-Christian.

• 1967 Doobie Doo, A gook in the purest sense is anybody what ain’t American.

• 1971 All in the Family, Archie Bunker denies he refers to Laotians, Cambodians, etc. as "Chinks". Edith Bunker: "No, he calls them 'gooks'."

• 2000 John McCain referred to his Vietnamese wartime experience, “I hate the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live… I was referring to my prison guards and I will continue to refer to them in language that might offend.”