gweilo

plural gweilos · alternative gwailo · alternative kwailo

1. colloquialethnicslurA 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