Meaning of gweilo | Babel Free

Definitions

A white person in China, (particularly) a man; a ‘foreign devil’.

colloquial, ethnic, slur

Examples

“She had ruffled the bed and laid a frilly nightdress on the floor because so far as the block was concerned Phoebe was the half-kwailo bastard who whored with the fat foreign devil.”

CEFR level