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Meaning of gweilo | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

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

colloquial, ethnic, slur

Equivalents

Français gweilo

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

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

gweipo gweipor gwelly Gwelo Gwen Gwenda

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