furriner

[ fur-uh-ner, fuhr- ]

nounDialect.
  1. a foreigner.

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How to use furriner in a sentence

  • They ain't noways dumb to each other, I notice; an' we air dumb aourselves when we air ketched with furriners.

    Ramona | Helen Hunt Jackson
  • He hated the "highfalutin" bearing of these "furriners," who carried their chins aloft like masters of creation.

    The Code of the Mountains | Charles Neville Buck
  • It stopped the railroad far down the Cumberland; it sent the "furriners" home, and drove civilization back.

    The Last Stetson | John Fox Jr.
  • She's doin' every bit o' th' managin' an' contrivin' wi' them furriners—but he'll never know it.

    T. Tembarom | Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • I wonder why honest English girls won't answer the gentry for governesses, instead of them gaping, scheming, wicked furriners?

    Uncle Silas | J. S. LeFanu