tyfoong

plural tyfoongs

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of typhoon.

   39 The Tyfoong of 1862 was more destructive of life and property among the Chinese, attributable to its longer duration and the greater rise of the tide.

   1875, Gideon Nye, The Opium Question and the Northern Campaigns, page 31

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   Three or four years sometimes pass without a tyfoong, while, in other years, there are several. The monsoons to the south of the Equator are less regular than to the north, their directions suffering considerable deviations from[…]

   1815, James Hingston Tuckey, Maritime Geography and Statistics ..., page 148

   The Chinese accounts of the tyfoong state that in Canton and the suburbs, above 1,000 houses and sheds, besides 20 temples, have been wholly or partially overthrown, and about 400 persons crushed beneath them.

   1833, Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China and Australasia, page 148