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Gweilo or gwailou (Chinese: 鬼佬; Cantonese Yale: gwáilóu, pronounced [kʷɐ̌i lǒu] ⓘ) is a common Cantonese slang term for Westerners.In the absence of modifiers, it refers to white people and has a history of racially deprecatory and pejorative use.
Triad language is a type of Cantonese slang. It is censored out of television and films. Kingsley Bolton and Christopher Hutton, the authors of "Bad Boys and Bad Language: Chòu háu and the Sociolinguistics of Swear Words in Cantonese," said that regardless of official discouragement of the use of triad language, "[T]riad language or triad-associated language is an important source of ...
Cantonese Internet Slang (Chinese: 廣東話網上俗語) is an informal language originating from Internet forums, chat rooms, and other social platforms. It is often adapted with self-created and out-of-tradition forms.
Here's a brief guide to some of the top Fort Lauderdale slang terms, nicknames and endearing. Getty Images Located in Broward County on South Florida's east coast, Ft. Lauderdale, like many cities ...
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(Indonesia & Malaysia) slang term for a Caucasian, term based on the name of the Orangutan species from the words "orang" (man) and "hutan" (forest). The slang term is based on the presumption that Caucasians, especially redheads, resemble Orangutans. Nathan35091
It is being swamped by Mandarin, the official language of more than 1 billion people in China and Taiwan — as different from Cantonese as Spanish is from French.
Gau (Traditional Chinese: 㞗 or 𨳊 or 鳩; Jyutping: gau1, but more commonly written as 尻 (haau1) or 鳩 (gou1) despite different pronunciations, [5] is a vulgar Cantonese word which literally means erected cock or cocky.