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- Philippine Spanish · borrowed frommestizo de sangley
- English todayMestizo de Sangley
From Philippine Spanish mestizo de sangley, from mestizo (“mixed”) + de (“of”) + sangley (“Chinese”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
mestizo de sangley
Today it means: A person of mixed ethnic Chinese Filipino and Austronesian Filipino ancestry (especially during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines). Full definition →
Philippine Spanish mestizo de sangley