FokIとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Hong Kong) IPA: /fɔki/

名詞

foki (plural fokis)

1. (Hong Kong, obsolete) staff
   • 1894 November 28, “The Winglok Street Outrage”, in Hongkong Telegraph, page 2:

     One of them took him by the queue and tied him to his fokis, while the other pointed a revolver at him and told him to keep quiet.

   • 1905 January 30, Hongkong Telegraph, page 4:

     FOR impersonating an emigrant before the Harbour Master, a foki in an immigration boarding-house at 291 Des Vœux Road, West, was to-day fined $100 and the accountant, and another foki for aiding and abetting, $50 and $25 respectively.

   • 1905 August 30, “Fokis Fight”, in China Mail, page 4:

     Something resembling a free fight occurred in Wing Lok Street last evening between the fokis employed at Nos 156 and 160.

   • 1934, Report of the Committee Regarding the Marketing of New Territories Produce in Hong Kong and Kowloon‎:

     Fokis from his farm go out to the neighbouring villages and buy eggs and take them back to his farm twice a week; and these eggs together with those produced on his own farm are brought to Hong Kong by launch.

   • 1918, South China Morning Post‎:

     A CHINESE man who had left a note at the scene of his crime pleaded guilty to stealing a quantity of clothing from five fokis. He was caught after he left a note, signed by himself, with his victims. He was sentenced to six weeks in prison.

   • 1946 June 9, Hongkong Telegraph‎:

     Cheung said that Gore, apparently under the influence of liquor, went to the Sun Sung Oot Cafe, Hennessy Road, and insisted on buying a piece of raw beef hung in the shop. Cheung, a foki, told him raw meat could not be sold and Gore threw the meat in his face.

   • 1946 September 5, Hongkong Telegraph‎:

     The company's representative pleaded the offence was unintentional as owing to holidays and busy hours the fokis was not informed of the ceiling price of that brand.

   • 1961 December 21, “Foki charged with giving false information”, in China Mail, page 12:

     Police charged this morning that a shop foki had spent $28,000 he told them had been stolen from him

参照

• Patrick J. Cummings, Hans-Georg Wolf (2011), A Dictionary of Hong Kong English: Words from the Fragrant Harbor, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 58