one-piecee
Chinese Pidgin English
Alternative forms
- 温卑士, 温卑時 (Chinese characters)
Adjective
one-piecee
- one; a
- 1862, T‘ong Ting-Kü, Ying Ü Tsap T’sün, or The Chinese and English Instructor, volume 4, Canton:
- 㕭灣治𪢍治温卑士羅也
- Jaau1 waan1 zi6 git3 zi6 wan1 bei1 si6 lo4 jaa5.
- You will have to engage a lawyer.
- (literally, “You wantchee catchee one-piecee lawyer.”)
- 1862, T‘ong Ting-Kü, Ying Ü Tsap T’sün, or The Chinese and English Instructor, volume 6, Canton:
- 拜温卑時豁卑乎
- Baai3 wan1 bei1 si4 kut3 bei1 fu4.
- Buy a piece of good beef.
- (literally, “Buy one-piecee good beef.”)
References
- Gow, W. S. P. (1924) Gow’s Guide to Shanghai, 1924: A Complete, Concise and Accurate Handbook of the City and District, Especially Compiled for the Use of Tourists and Commercial Visitors to the Far East, Shanghai, page 107: “One-piecee: one; a; an.”