Foochowese

Foochowese (plural Foochowese)

1. (dated) Alternative form of Foochownese
   • 1885, Dukes, Edwin Joshua, “Our Chinese Brethren in Christ”, in Everyday Life in China or Scenes Along River and Road in Fuh-kien‎, Religious Tract Society, OCLC 26062520, 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.

Foochowese

1. (dated) Alternative form of Foochownese
   • 1925, Franck, Harry A., Roving Through Southern China‎, The Century Company, OCLC 1036948, 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.