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gweilos

gweilos is the plural 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

Questions about gweilos

What is gweilos the plural of?
Gweilos is the plural of gweilo.

Words near gweilos in the dictionary

  1. gweep
  2. gweeped
  3. gweeping
  4. gweeps
  5. gweilo
  6. gweilos
  7. gweipo
  8. gweipor
  9. gweipors
  10. gweipos
  11. gwelly

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