Hongkongite

plural Hongkongites

1. alternativeAlternative form of Hong Kongite.

   With thoughts of leaving most remote, he was experiencing the seasoned Hongkongite's joy at returning. "Glad to see you, Winters," was good to hear; it was pleasant to be among the old crowd again. "Live anywhere else? Never!

   1907, The Smart Set

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   Even if exaggerated, some of the reports of tiger sightings must be true. Some Impressions of a Returned Hongkongite: 'It is good to be back again. I am convinced now that I did not mark Hongkong down at its true worth till I got away from it.

   2002, Solomon Bard, Voices from the Past: Hong Kong, 1842-1918, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 312

   This led me to speak, on one of the occasions when I addressed the freshmen just about to start their university career, on the topic of 'The Ugly Hongkongite'. It was a caricature of the type of Hongkongers just described and seemed to have ...

   2011, Rayson Huang, A Lifetime in Academia: An Autobiography by Rayson Huang, Expanded Second Edition, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 143

   Much is said of British protection, and in the taxation argument it has been alleged that the Hongkongite enjoys all the security that the resident in the United Kingdom enjoys. The Colony reasonably questions this statement. Though their ...

   1941, Shuxi Xu, Japan and the Third Powers