Foochownese
English
Noun
Foochownese (uncountable)
- (dated) A person from Fuzhou.
- 1930, J. H. Liu, Lien-tê Wu, & Yui C. Voonping, The National Medical Journal of China - Volume 16, page 100:
- That the Chinese still do it when they are away from their homeland with regrettable result to themselves, is evident from cases reported by Manson (1880) in a Foochownese, by Koo (1924) in a Shantunguese, Seymour (? Cantonese), from South America (Cantonese), from the Philippines (Amoynese), and recently in this hospital in a native of Kiangsu who got the infection in Yokohama.
- 1939, Hawaiian Academy of Sciences, Proceedings - Issues 13-30, page 103:
- Other elements are Hakkas, some Foochownese, some mixtures of Chinese and aborigines in the south, a few remaining Japanese, and many refugees from East China and other parts of China.
- (Can we date this quote?), Susan Chan Egan & William Hung, A Latterday Confucian: Reminiscences of William Hung, (1893-1980), →ISBN, page 1987:
- During their first few years in Shantung, Hung and his brothers continued their education under their Foochownese tutor, Master Hsieh.
- 1988 September, Yat-San Tsai, Shi-Chiy Su, Tai-Te Wang, Chien-Tien Hsu, & Yun-Nan Lin, “Primary choriocarcinoma in the uterine cervix: report of 4 cases”, in The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research, volume 14, number 3:
- The patient was a 53-year-old, married, Foochownese housewife.
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Proper noun
Foochownese
- The dialect spoken in the area around Fuzhou.
- 1874, Zoology Reprints and Separata, Etc - Volume 112:
- Cui Sung (Foochownese Romanization);
- 1963, Adult Education in People's Republic of China, 1950-1958, page 64:
- The character 林, for instance, has the same meaning for all, although it is pronounced Lin in Pekinese, Ling in Foochownese, Liem in Foganese, Lam in Cantonese, etc.
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