Quote Originally Posted by heavenlee View Post
Huwanapo -- If I remember right, it literally means "Stinking Barbarians". To be fair, the Chinese feel so superior that they call all foreigners "barbarians". But the Filipinos they find more stinky than the other outsiders.
My Fookienese is not that good, but I don't think it means stinking barbarians. I looked it up, and here's what I found. I was a bit surprised that some words that we commonly use are from Fookienese origins.

Chinese Loan Words in the Filipino Language



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