e/Stinking Old Ninth

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has gloss	eng: Stinking Old Ninth is a Chinese dysphemism for intellectuals used at several points in history. During the Yuan Dynasty the Mongol conquerors imposed ten "castes" of Chinese: Bureaucrats, officials, Buddhist monks, Taoist priests, physicians, workers, hunters, prostitutes, (ninth) Confucian scholars and finally beggars. During the Cultural Revolution the "Nine Black Categories" were: Landlords, rich farmers, anti-revolutionaries, bad influences, right-wingers, traitors, spies, capitalist roaders and (ninth) intellectuals.
lexicalization	eng: Stinking Old Ninth
instance of	(noun) an offensive or disparaging expression that is substituted for an inoffensive one; "his favorite dysphemism was to ask for axle grease when he wanted butter" dysphemism