Meaning of foreign devil | Babel Free

Definitions

A foreigner.

China, archaic, derogatory

Equivalents

Examples

“"Alas! I called him 'foreign devil' then. Chang, too, had much to learn⟳." "He is speaking of Lord Macartney."”

“Some liberals interested in reforming the law put⟳ out a questionnaire to poll public opinion on homosexuality. They got about two thousand people to answer⟳ the questionnaire but there were in the end⟳ only about five hundred responses. As usual most of these respondants were English, Europeans or Americans which gave a very skewed idea to the Chinese community who again viewed that only the "foreign devils" were interested in homosexuality and law reform⟳.”

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