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  • noun dialectal variant of foreigner

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Examples

  • Gee, Chuck, Just because some chuckleheaded Bozo in a grossly incompetent administration tells a gullible public a furriner is an "enemy combatant" doesn't mean it's true.

    A Hit From The Supremes 2008

  • There was no credit for Mavis -- her courage was a matter of course; but with the stranger-girl, a "furriner" -- that was different.

    The Heart of the Hills John Fox 1891

  • To be sure, the fastnesses of the border Cumberlands were new to him; but his vanity was hurt by the realization that he had tramped for nearly an hour through serried ranks of ancient trees and crowding thickets of laurel and rhododendron -- which seemed to take a personal delight in impeding the progress of a "furriner" -- and over craggy rocks, only to find, at the end of that time, that he was entering one end of a short ravine from the other end of which he had started with the vague purpose of seeking the path by which he had climbed from the valley village.

    'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands Eliot H. Robinson

  • Indeed, the debate puts the GOP candidates into a no-win situation: take the heat from Hispanics for missing the debate or anger their mouth-breathing, bedwetting base by agreeing to debate in a "furriner" language.

    GOP candidates afraid of Brown People Sinfonian 2007

  • Indeed, the debate puts the GOP candidates into a no-win situation: take the heat from Hispanics for missing the debate or anger their mouth-breathing, bedwetting base by agreeing to debate in a "furriner" language.

    Archive 2007-08-26 Sinfonian 2007

  • Well, being the "furriner" that I am I can only guess...

    Blog Anniversary. Spinningfishwife 2007

  • I'm a "furriner", but I'd love to live there with you & GourdonGirl!

    Happy New Year. Spinningfishwife 2007

  • He's also a foreigner, much as I hate to use that word I always hear "furriner" in my head, it sounds so redneck to me.

    Argh. 2006

  • Cone a "furriner" aroused at best but a superficial interest and, since

    The Man Thou Gavest

  • Any "furriner" from down below might wander here, whipping the stream; or any one of the neighborhood might chance on the spot.

    Heart of the Blue Ridge Waldron Baily

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