drinkee
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Chinese Pidgin English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From English drink + English -y, with the suffix spelled as -ee.
Verb[edit]
drinkee
- to drink
References[edit]
- Gow, W. S. P. (1924) Gow’s Guide to Shanghai, 1924: A Complete, Concise and Accurate Handbook of the City and District, Especially Compiled for the Use of Tourists and Commercial Visitors to the Far East, Shanghai, page 105: “Drinkee or dlinkee: Drink. “My think-so that man have plenty dlinkee” I think he was drunk.”