Foochowese

English

Noun

Foochowese (plural Foochowese)

1. (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^[1], 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

1. (dated) Alternative form of Foochownese
   • 1925, Harry A. Franck, Roving Through Southern China‎^[2], 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.