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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(colloquial, ethnic slur) A white person in China, (particularly) a man; a ‘foreign devil’..
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.
Use gweilo when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gweilo means (colloquial, ethnic slur) A white person in China, (particularly) a man; a ‘foreign devil’..
Common synonyms include white person.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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