kwai-lon.
‘Foreign devil’, a name given by the Chinese to foreigners.
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1878 H. A. Giles Gloss. Subj. Far East 76 Kwei-tsze or Kuei-tzŭ, devils. A Chinese term for foreigners.
1910 J. S. Thomson Chinese i. 70 Now and then an urchin spits at a foreigner's chair and shouts, Fan kwei lai (See, here's a foreign devil).
1944 H. B. Rattenbury China, my China i. 9 On the streets they cursed me for..a ‘yang kuei-tze’—‘a foreign devil’.]
1969 Times 9 Dec. (Taiwan Suppl.) p. viii/6 To the kwai-lo's innocent suggestion that the Foochow or coastal school might be classified under the generic label ‘shanghai’, Master Wei responded with a sour oath.
1972 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 4 Dec. Kwai Lo, a foreigner (or literally devil man).
1972 Times 21 Oct. (Hongkong Suppl.) p. i/4 A discreet variety of Mao-style padded-coat is admirable wear for young and elderly kwai-lo (foreign devils) in the Hongkong winter.
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