粵

外ngoi6江gong1佬lou2

ngoi6 gong1 lou2wài jiāng lǎo

English

  1. noun; one who come from another province or other side of the river (indicating Yangtze or Yellow River as the border); one who come from Mainland China to Hong Kong; discriminatory in meaning
  2. the persons came from another province

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 外省人

Examples

  • 佢哋完全唔識我哋啲話,睇怕都係外江佬。

    They don't speak any of our language, I'm afraid they are from another province.

Sources: cc-canto, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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