• Furriner

    Full definition of furriner

    Noun

    furriner

    (plural furriners)
    1. (Now chiefly pejorative) Form of dialectal
      • 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, Emma Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel,Just fancy ME bein' talked over by any God-forsaken furriner!

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