See gweilo on Wiktionary
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"tr": "gwai² lou²"
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"name": "bor"
}
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"etymology_text": "From Cantonese 鬼佬 (gwai² lou²), from 鬼 (gwai², “ghost”) + 佬 (lou², “guy, man”).",
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"ref": "1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 179:",
"text": "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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"A white person in China, (particularly) a man; a ‘foreign devil’."
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