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furriner

[fur-uh-ner, fuhr-]

noun

Dialect.
  1. a foreigner.



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For another, that whole “OMG Trump’s in league with a furriner!” meme was simultaneously desperate, cynical and naive.

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Swine have precisely the same animal properties that they have in any other country, and those brought up in this extreme Eastern land might be transported to the cabins of the Irish and they would never discover that a “furriner” had invaded their homes.

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An' I sez—but I didn' had time to say For a scraitch went up from the end o' the kay, Where a cheeld was aswingin' jest afore, An' now there wasn' no cheeld no more, Then a'most afore I could see him go, That furriner sprang in the say below.

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As I was bendin' a hook one day A furriner* strawled along the kay.

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"I suppose he thinks it's not his business to keep the furriner from bein' drooned, yet he ties our hands and helps him take our trade, and noo he's at it agin."

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