See wantchee on Wiktionary
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{ "categories": [ "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "cpi", "2": "want", "3": "y", "lang1": "en", "lang2": "en" }, "expansion": "English want + English -y", "name": "suffix" }, { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "-sy" }, "expansion": "English -sy", "name": "ncog" } ], "etymology_text": "From English want + English -y, with the suffix spelled as -chee reminiscent of English -sy.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "cpi", "2": "verb" }, "expansion": "wantchee", "name": "head" } ], "lang": "Chinese Pidgin English", "lang_code": "cpi", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "glosses": [ "want" ], "links": [ [ "want", "want" ] ] }, { "categories": [ "Chinese Pidgin English terms with quotations", "Chinese Pidgin English terms with redundant script codes" ], "examples": [ { "english": "[according to?] pidgin customs, everyone needs to go worship God on new years", "ref": "1860, The Englishman in China, London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., page 100:", "text": "belong olo custom pidgin, any man must wantchee go chin-chin Joss new year tim.^([sic])", "type": "quote" }, { "text": "㕭灣治𪢍治温卑士羅也\nju¹ waan¹ zhi⁶ get³ zhi⁶ wan¹ bi¹ si⁶ lo⁴ jaa⁵\nYou wantchee catchee one piecee lawyer.\nYou will have to engage a lawyer." } ], "glosses": [ "need" ], "links": [ [ "need", "need" ] ] } ], "synonyms": [ { "english": "Chinese spelling", "word": "灣治" } ], "word": "wantchee" }
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