gringo
- a term used in Latin America or Spain to refer to a foreigner, especially one of U.S. or British descent (sometimes used facetiously).
Origin of gringo
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Examples from the Web for gringo
Contemporary Examples of gringo
The story of their visit quickly spread among the ‘Gringo Trail’ and McFadden lucked into a business as the unofficial tour guide.
Cocaine, Politicians and Wives: Inside the World’s Most Bizarre PrisonJason Batansky
October 12, 2014
After that, backpackers on the South American ‘Gringo Trail’ began touring and partying in San Pedro.
Cocaine, Politicians and Wives: Inside the World’s Most Bizarre PrisonJason Batansky
October 12, 2014
Historical Examples of gringo
Also at any moment the devil may send me a Gringo; their scouts are as plenty as scorpions.
RitaLaura E. Richards
Gringo, if you are not more careful we shall have to gag you!
Uncle Sam's Boys as LieutenantsH. Irving Hancock
Does my brother know the Gringo has asked the Apaches for a guide?
The Trail-HunterGustave Aimard
Gringo pig of a spy, you shall die and be fed to the buzzards!
Uncle Sam DetectiveWilliam Atherton Du Puy
In his arroyo again, he proposed to make the Gringo as a sieve.
The MissourianEugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
gringo
- a person from an English-speaking country: used as a derogatory term by Latin Americans
Word Origin for gringo
Word Origin and History for gringo
1849, from Mexican Spanish gringo, contemptuous word for "foreigner," from Spanish gringo "foreign, unintelligible talk, gibberish," perhaps ultimately from griego "Greek." The "Diccionario Castellano" (1787) says gringo was used in Malaga for "anyone who spoke Spanish badly," and in Madrid for "the Irish."
gringo
In Latin America, a foreigner, especially a North American or Englishman; usually a term of contempt.