Meaning of chilip | Babel Free

Definitions

A foreigner, especially a Westerner; someone from outside Bhutan or the broader Tibetan cultural sphere.

colloquial

Examples

“Tshomo, a young herdswoman from Laya who lives with her herd of yaks on a lonely mountain pasture, hears his cries, saves the chilip, and soon takes him under her wing in every sense⟳ of the word.”

“There are accounts of curious villagers, unaccustomed to seeing those who come⟳ from faraway lands, turning up at the door “to have⟳ a look⟳ at the chilip.” This term for a Westerner is at once affectionate but slightly disparaging.”

“Back in Thimphu I had heard about a (male) Fulbrighter being undressed down to his underwear in a parking lot. “The ritual undressing of the chilip,” a friend had called it, chilip (“grey hair”) being the local word for foreigners.”

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