so fashion
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps a calque of Cantonese 噉樣/噉样 (gam2 joeng6-2, “like this; so”, literally “such + appearance”).
Adverb
[edit]so fashion (not comparable)
- (Chinese Pidgin English) in this way; like this; so; thus
- 1849, Samuel Wells Williams, The Middle Kingdom
- “So fashion, eh?” rejoined my friend; “how muchee plice can catchee one alla same same for that?”
- 1875, James Fowler Rusling, Across America; or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast
- Lookee sharp—so fashion—alla same mi
- 1944, Robert A. Hall, Jr., Chinese Pidgin English Grammar and Texts, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 64, No. 3
- Certain adverbs may take the suffix of manner fæšən, which does not change their meaning: sṓfæšən ‘thusly,’ […]
- 1849, Samuel Wells Williams, The Middle Kingdom