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Definition of Furriner
1. a foreigner [n -S] - See also: foreigner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Furriner
Literary usage of Furriner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1894)
"I say he ain't no furriner; but have your way, not mine, Though I don't see how
he can be when I think of "fifty-nine." —Ay ! there's a yarn as I can ..."
2. A Mountain Europa: A Cumberland Vendetta; The Last Stetson by John Fox (1909)
"I knowed the furriner begun comin' here 'cause ye air not like gals in the ...
I hevn't said nuthin' to yer dad, fer fear o' his harmin' the furriner; ..."
3. The United Service (1905)
"I say he ain't no furriner; but have your way, not mine, Though I don't see how
he can be when I think of "fifty-nine." —Ay! there's a yarn as I can spin— ..."
4. The Sunday at Home: A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1884)
"But to give their boots and shoes to a "furriner" was quite another thing.
Had not Joby Pearson cobbled for them ever since they could remember? ..."
5. Rory O'More: A National Romance by Samuel Lover (1898)
"A furriner ! is it me a furriner !—arrah, Misther De Lacy, what do you mane at all?
Sure you know I'm an Irishman, and no furriner. ..."
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