The story
- Cantonese · derived from速速“quick”
- English todaychop-chop
From Chinese Pidgin English, from Cantonese 速速 (cuk1 cuk1, “quick”). Recorded in English since the 1830s (see citations for adverb). Recorded as a Chinese term in 1795.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.