tyfoong

English

Etymology

From a Sinitic language term 大風／大风 ("big wind"); compare e.g. Cantonese daai6 fung1 /taːi̯²² fʊŋ⁵⁵/, Hakka thai-fûng /tʰai̯⁵⁵ fuŋ²⁴/.

Noun

tyfoong (plural tyfoongs)

1. Obsolete spelling of typhoon

   Alternative forms: ty-foong, ty-fung, tyfung

   • 1815, James Hingston Tuckey, Maritime Geography and Statistics ..., page 148:

     Three or four years sometimes pass without a tyfoong, while, in other years, there are several. The monsoons to the south of the Equator are less regular than to the north, their directions suffering considerable deviations from […]

   • 1833, Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China and Australasia, page 148:

     The Chinese accounts of the tyfoong state that in Canton and the suburbs, above 1,000 houses and sheds, besides 20 temples, have been wholly or partially overthrown, and about 400 persons crushed beneath them.

   • 1875, Gideon Nye, The Opium Question and the Northern Campaigns, page 31:

     39 The Tyfoong of 1862 was more destructive of life and property among the Chinese, attributable to its longer duration and the greater rise of the tide.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:tyfoong.