Talk:tickee

Instances of tickees
These suggest a plural, and may also suggest the sense may not be entirely limited to Chinglish:
 * 1992, Sky Phillips, Secret Mission to Melbourne, November, 1941, Journal of the West (ISBN 9780897451482), page 260:
 * He told Albion, “If Flemington&#39;s this exciting on a plain old Saturday, I&#39;ve got to come back for the Cup! Mark it on your calendar, Pixie Doll; we&#39;ve got a date for the first Tuesday in November, 1942. I&#39;ll send you the money, you get the tickees ...
 * 1997, Wolfgang Mieder, The Politics of Proverbs: From Traditional Wisdom to Proverbial Stereotypes, Univ of Wisconsin Press (ISBN 9780299154547), page 186:
 * ... much aware of the stereotypical potential of the proverb. In terms of usage, presumably the expression can be used literally, but do you believe it could also be used metaphorically (that is, in situations where actual &quot;tickees&quot; and &quot;washees&quot; were not involved)?
 * 1970, John Edgar Wideman, Hurry home:
 * Yellow tickees for yellow cabs were automatically ejaculated from a blunt snouted machine beside the double revolving doors of the station&#39;s entrance.  Alms for the love of Allah Cecil thought he heard and reached out to take a yellow  ticket.
 * 1982, Frederick S. Armentrout, Images of Hong Kong:
 * ... colony using gunboats and contraband goods — but their success at trading depended on compradores whose friends and families flourished with their patriarch&#39;s command of &quot;Chinglish&quot;, and who laughed with their &quot;tickees and washees&quot; ...
 * - -sche (discuss) 23:04, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

RFV discussion: December 2019
Eye dialect for ticket. I don't think eye dialect is correct (since this can't be pronounced the same as ticket); in any case I couldn't locate any text where somebody is selling "tickees" to a carnival etc. Equinox ◑ 01:08, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * It occurs in a mercifully obsolete phrase stereotypically attributed to Chinese laundry workers in centuries past: "no tickee, no washee".The ticket in question is the one that a cashier at the laundry would give you when you dropped off your clothes to be washed. I would call it a dialectal spelling, but also an offensive and racist caricature of Chinese immigrant laborers in the US at that time and of their limited English skills. It was also used figuratively. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:16, 11 December 2019 (UTC)


 * I see. I have created . Equinox ◑ 04:27, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * And I have cited this one, using similar variants. Kiwima (talk) 20:30, 11 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Now I've made too, since this is a stereotypical pattern in mimicking the Chinese, like  for "Red Indians". Equinox ◑ 04:56, 13 December 2019 (UTC)


 * I found some citations that seem to attest the plural (which I put at Talk:tickee, because some are mentiony); some may also not be Chinglish. - -sche (discuss) 23:05, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 20:28, 20 December 2019 (UTC)