towkayn.
/ˈtaʊkeɪ/ A Chinese businessman or employer, esp. in Malaysia.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > businessman > [noun]
man of business1640
homme d'affaires1717
businessman1803
businessperson1834
operator1838
towkay1854
grey suit1969
pinstripe1970
suit1977
pin-striper1979
1854 Jrnl. Indian Archipel. & Eastern Asia 8 16 Country born Chinese have a club called Sip Gee Seeah; they elect 12 Towkays or trustees.
1900 W. W. Skeat Malay Magic v. 253 The Malay pawang may squeeze a hundred or perhaps two hundred dollars out of the Chinese towkay who comes to mine for tin in Malaya.
1924 Brit. Weekly 11 Sept. 511/5 In a comfortable lounge chair reclined the towkay smoking his opium pipe.
1948 Straits Times 7 July 4/5 Our lives were probably saved by a Chinese towkay from Karak who used to keep us supplied with fresh fruit and tinned milk.
1966 D. Forbes Heart of Malaya iii. 41 Nancy, the fourth daughter of Lee Kwan Bock, the saw~mill towkay, was a schoolteacher.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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