how-fashion

== Chinese Pidgin English == === Alternative forms === 厚花臣, 口花臣 (Chinese spelling) === Etymology === Calque of Cantonese 點樣 / 点样 (dim2 joeng6-2). === Adverb === how-fashion how why === Conjunction === how-fashion how 米沙比厚花臣[sic – meaning 𠱸]都*mai5 shaa1 bi2 hau5 faa1 sheon4 du1My savvy how fashion do.I will know how to act. 口花臣[sic – meaning 𠱸]㕭𠲟揸治梳乜治*hau5 faa1 sheon4 ju1 gen6 zaa1 zhi6 sho1 mat1 zhi6How fashion you can chargee so muchee?How can you charge such a price? === References === Gow, W. S. P. (1924), Gow’s Guide to Shanghai, 1924: A Complete, Concise and Accurate Handbook of the City and District, Especially Compiled for the Use of Tourists and Commercial Visitors to the Far East, Shanghai, page 106: “How-fashion: what for? why? what is the meaning? “How fashion you stop out so late?””