"gweilo" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 179",
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        "A white person in China, (particularly) a man; a ‘foreign devil’."
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        "(colloquial, ethnic slur) A white person in China, (particularly) a man; a ‘foreign devil’."
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          "word": "laowai"
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          "word": "gweipo"
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          "word": "gwailo"
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          "word": "kwailo"
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      "word": "kwailo"
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