Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. ethnic slur A Caucasian person, in China (generally a man); a ‘foreign devil’.
Etymologies
- From Cantonese 鬼佬 (gweilo, "foreign devil"), from 鬼 ("ghost") + 佬 ("a regular guy, a chap") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“From the old film star, to the runaway girl, to the mature sex worker, to illegal immigrant, to a "gweilo" singing on the streets.”
“As for THE HIDDEN KINGDOM, what bothered me was seeing Jackie and Jet play second fiddle to a really boring and charisma-free gweilo.”
“It made us feel as if they still regarded us as gweilo foreign devils.”
“Maybe not fair to point out, but gweilo is a Cantonese word, not Mandarin.”
“Granted, we can see the gweilo fiddling with MTR Uncle's bag first, but nobody so far has been able to explain what happened prior to this heated argument.”
“Instead, this man chooses to confront a rather impatient gweilo who is 1.5 times his size.”
“jumpcut, you are incorrect: the Mandarin version of gweilo is ‘yang guizi’.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gweilo’.
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EN - xenophobic terms
Alle Menschen werden Brüder - sooner or later? Derogatory terms for anybody different.
abe, anchor baby, ann, ape, apple, asian nigger, aunt jemima , aunt jane, aunt mary, aunt sally, banana, beaner and 315 more...
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vinyl's Words
deliverator, finna, metric fuckton, fag, hyphy, ginormous, sacrilicious, fantabulous, macaca, n-word, pterodactyl, genious and 560 more...
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Australian
words not found in other
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scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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Name-Calling Humans
Terms of human exceptionalism, exclusivity, and 'types of'.
cablinasian, goyim, shiksa, gweilo, gaijin, banana, nigger, abc, fob, twinkie, oreo, ching chong and 48 more...
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