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Foochowese

Foochowese is the alternative form of Foochownese.

Meaning of Foochownese

Noun

Foochownese (plural Foochownese)

  1. (US, dated) A person from Fuzhou.
    • That the Chinese still do it when they are away from their homeland with regrettable result to themselves, is evident from cases reported by Manson (1880) in a Foochownese, by Koo (1924) in a Shantunguese, Seymour (? Cantonese), from South America (Cantonese), from the Philippines (Amoynese), and...1930, J. H. Liu, Lien-tê Wu, Yui C. Voonping, The National Medical Journal of China - Volume 16, page 100

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Forms of Foochowese

pluralFoochowese

Questions about Foochowese

What is Foochowese the alternative form of?
Foochowese is the alternative form of Foochownese.

Words near Foochowese in the dictionary

  1. foobar
  2. foobars
  3. foobs
  4. Fooching
  5. Foochow
  6. Foochowese
  7. Foochownese
  8. Foochows
  9. food
  10. food additive
  11. food additives

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Foochowese (page history and authors); Foochownese (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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