foreign devil
English
Etymology
Calque of Cantonese 番鬼 (faan1 gwai2, literally “foreign devil”)
Noun
foreign devil (plural foreign devils)
- (China, archaic, derogatory) A foreigner.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
- "Alas! I called him 'foreign devil' then. Chang, too, had much to learn." "He is speaking of Lord Macartney."
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