sangley

English

Noun

sangley (plural sangleys or sangleyes)

1. Alternative form of Sangley
   • 1935, Percy A. Hill, Walter Johnson Robb, Romance and Adventure in Old Manila, page 49:

     The steersmen were killed on two of the bancas; the bancas, turning broadside to the current, were soon capsized, and the river became a mass of frenzied sangleys fighting for their lives in the treacherous waters.

   • 2001, José Eugenio Borao Mateo, Spaniards in Taiwan: 1582-1641, page 185:

     Moreover, the sangleys are setting up a small parian in this area. This is bound to grow in time as more and more sangleys will go there to sow the fields and plant sugarcane.

   • 2014, Caroline S. Hau, The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation, and Region in and Beyond the Philippines, →ISBN:

     As discussed in the Introduction, the sangley was intimately associated with the economic activity of trade: even though there were sangleyes who worked as artisans (and in some cases farmers and fishermen), sangley involvement in the China-Manila-Mexico galleon trade was a key element of the early Spanish colonial economy. The sangley was also characterized by his high level of mobility, that is, his "frequent coming" from somewhere not here but near.

Anagrams

• Ganleys

Tagalog

Noun

sangley (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜅ᜔ᜎᜒᜌ᜔)

1. Alternative form of Sangley