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- noun ethnic slur A Caucasian person, in China (generally a man); a ‘foreign devil’.
Etymologies
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Examples
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From the old film star, to the runaway girl, to the mature sex worker, to illegal immigrant, to a "gweilo" singing on the streets.
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As for THE HIDDEN KINGDOM, what bothered me was seeing Jackie and Jet play second fiddle to a really boring and charisma-free gweilo.
Mini Reviews Too Late Walter Jon Williams 2010
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It made us feel as if they still regarded us as gweilo foreign devils.
One From The Hart Stefanie Powers 2010
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Maybe not fair to point out, but gweilo is a Cantonese word, not Mandarin.
I wish they all could be Shanghai girls » Japundit Blog 2005
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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.
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Instead, this man chooses to confront a rather impatient gweilo who is 1.5 times his size.
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jumpcut, you are incorrect: the Mandarin version of gweilo is ‘yang guizi’.
I wish they all could be Shanghai girls » Japundit Blog 2005
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