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furriner
furriner
English
Noun
furriner (plural furriners)
- (Now chiefly pejorative) dialectal variant of foreigner
- 1853(?), John Greenleaf Whittier, Yankee Gypsies,
- I took this 'ere paper, you see, to help a poor furriner, who could n't make himself understood any more than a wild goose.
- 1885, Bret Harte, By Shore and Sedge,
- Thar ain't no place whar you haven't as much right to go ez any other man; thar ain't any man, furriner or Amerykan, young or old, dyed or undyed, ez hev got any better rights.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel,
- Just fancy ME bein' talked over by any God-forsaken furriner!
- 1853(?), John Greenleaf Whittier, Yankee Gypsies,