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guailo

guailo is the alternative form of gweilo.

Meaning of gweilo

Noun

gweilo (plural gweilos or gweilo)

  1. (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.1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 179
    Synonyms:
    white person

Forms of guailo

pluralguailos

Questions about guailo

What is guailo the alternative form of?
Guailo is the alternative form of gweilo.

Words near guailo in the dictionary

  1. Guaicuruan
  2. guaietolin
  3. guaifenesin
  4. guaijaverin
  5. Guaikuru
  6. guailo
  7. guailos
  8. guaimesal
  9. Guainía
  10. guaiol
  11. guaiphenesin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: guailo (page history and authors); gweilo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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