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Chinese Pidgin English
Etymology
From Macau Pidgin Portuguese, from Portuguese ladrão, from Latin latrō.
Noun
la-li-loong
- thief
1889 November, Thomas W. Knox, “The Talking Handkerchief”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume LXXIX, number CCCCLXXIV (in English), New York: Harper & Brothers, publishers, page 941:“La-li-loong muchee talkee one piecee man dielo savvey no can,” he remarked, which is equivalent to “The thieves are saying that a dead man doesn’t know anything.”
- a contemptible person