1. Foochow - Adjective
2. Foochow - Proper noun
Dated form of Fuzhou.
(Southeast Asia) Fuzhou dialect (a dialect from the Eastern Min family of Chinese dialects)
(Southeast Asia) a person who traces his/her ancestry to Fuzhou or the surrounding region
Foochow (not comparable)
(Southeast Asia) of or relating to the Fuzhou dialect
About two thousand Mussulman families are still to be found at Canton, and a similar number at Foochow; descendants, perhaps, of the old sea-borne contingents which began to arrive in the seventh and eighth centuries. Source: Internet