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has glosseng: Ang Mo also Ang mo kow (red-haired monkeys), Ang mo kui (red-haired devil), (red-haired devil), is a racial epithet that originates from Hokkien (Min Nan) that is used to refer to white people in Malaysia and Singapore. Literally meaning red-haired, the term carries a strong stigma at present amongst a large proportion of the Caucasian minority. The term implies that the person referred to is a devil, a concept also explicitly used in the Cantonese term gweilo (foreign devil).
lexicalizationeng: Ang Mo
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has glosszho: 红毛鬼子为一个形容西洋人(白人)的蔑称。由于相较中国人,西洋人头发一般显得颜色较淡,所以常常被称为红毛。
lexicalizationzho: 红毛鬼子

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