foki

plural fokis

1. Hong Kongobsoletestaff

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

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

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   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.

   1894 November 28, “The Winglok Street Outrage”, in Hongkong Telegraph, page 2

   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 January 30, Hongkong Telegraph, page 4

   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.

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

   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.

   1918, South China Morning Post

   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 June 9, Hongkong Telegraph