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Chinese
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old; aged; venerable old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix) |
west
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son; child; diminutive suffix
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| trad. (老西兒)
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老
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西
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兒
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| simp. (老西儿)
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老
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西
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儿
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Pronunciation
Noun
老西兒
- (Beijing Mandarin, derogatory) person from Shanxi
1896, Baron Guido Vitale, editor, Chinese Folklore: Pekinese Rhymes, Peking: Pei-T’ang Press, page 49:
妞兒要喝豆汁兒／還得找老西兒
妞儿要喝豆汁儿／还得找老西儿 - niūr yào hē dòuzhīr / hái děi zhǎo lǎoxīr
- Young lady, if you want to drink bean decoction — then we must go to the old Shan-hsi man’s
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of
山西人 (“person from Shanxi”)