Foochowese
English
Noun
Foochowese (plural Foochowese)
- (dated) Alternative form of Foochownese
- 1885, Edwin Joshua Dukes, “Our Chinese Brethren in Christ”, in Everyday Life in China or Scenes Along River and Road in Fuh-kien, Religious Tract Society, →OCLC, page 228:
- The native of Canton is a foreigner to his brother of Amoy, not only in language, but in disposition : and the Ningpo man is as far removed from a Foochowese as the man of Kent is from the Highlander.
Proper noun
Foochowese
- (dated) Alternative form of Foochownese
- 1925, Harry A. Franck, Roving Through Southern China, The Century Company, →OCLC, page 183:
- I know Americans of extensive mission experience who can preach as long and as fluent a sermon in Foochowese as in English, yet who can no more make themselves understood anywhere else in China than if they had never crossed the Pacific.
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