Chinchew

Chinchew

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare Hokkien 晉江 (Chìn-kang), 晉州 (Chìn-chiu), 泉州 (Choân-chiu), 漳州 (Cheng-chiu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɪnˈt͡ʃuː/

Proper noun

Chinchew

1. (dated) Quanzhou (a city in southern China)
   • 1894, John Gerardus Fagg, Forty Years in South China‎, New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, OCLC 2009683, OL 6342102M, page 135:

     It was then suggested that if two more men were ready perhaps it would be well to appoint them for the region north of us, to carry the Gospel to the villages and towns between Amoy and Chinchew and see whether the way might not be open to begin operations in that city. Chinchew is an important city near the seacoast, about one-third of the way from Amoy to Foochovv. The suggestion concerning the appointment of men for Chinchew was new to us.

   • 1975, Peter Ward Fay, The Opium War 1840-1842‎, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, published 1997, →ISBN, LCCN 97-35261, OCLC 670173619, page 124:

     They holed easily; once, off Chinchew, when Dent’s Lord Amherst chose to send a few warning rounds over the heads of several anchored rather too close, a gun happened to hang fire until the ship rolled, and she accidentally put a ball smack into one and saw her fill and go down.

   • 1989, Gunnar Thompson, Nu Sun‎, Fresno, CA: Pioneer Publishing Co., →ISBN, LCCN 88-83728, OCLC 760416690, page 214:

     Worcester (1972, 22) indicates that the whitewash used on ships around Chinchew, China, contains wood oil extracted from the poisonous seeds of Dryandra cordifolia which prevents attack by sea worms.

   • 2016, Byrne, Liam, “William Jardine”, in Dragons: Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain‎, Head of Zeus, →ISBN, OCLC 951120481, page 227:

     Sailing under Spanish colours with his cousin William McKay at the helm, Matheson left the safe haven of Canton and headed north to Chinchew (Quanzhou), in Fujian. There, Matheson managed to offload $80,000- (over £17,000)- worth of the drug — enough to persuade him to return in the autumn - when storms forced his ship to take shelter 30 miles short of Chinchew in what turned out to be the region’s principal opium port.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chinchew.

Further reading

• “Chinchew” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.