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Definition of Gringo
1. Noun. A Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen).
Definition of Gringo
1. n. Among Spanish Americans, a foreigner, esp. an Englishman or American; -- often used as a term of reproach.
Definition of Gringo
1. Noun. (slang sometimes pejorative Latin America) A Caucasian foreigner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gringo
1. a foreigner in Latin America [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gringo
Literary usage of Gringo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach (1912)
"Under the pseudonym of "Harry gringo," he wrote 'Los gringos; or, An Interior
View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia' ..."
2. California the Golden by Rockwell Dennis Hunt (1911)
"PART TWO BEFORE THE gringo CAME CHAPTER VI THE ORIGINAL CALIFORNIANS The Native
Races of America. — The native races of America were called Indians because ..."
3. Bohemian San Francisco: Its Restaurants and Their Most Famous Recipes; the by Clarence Edgar Edwords (1914)
"gringo an<* during the year following Mar- CAME shall's discovery two thousand
ships These men were all individualists, and their individualism has been ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"The origin of gringo is thus accounted for. During the American war some ...
My authority is 'Through the Land of the Aztecs,' by "A gringo,"published in ..."
5. Out where the West Begins: And Other Western Verses by Arthur Chapman (1917)
"... the gringo came, senor, We were most happy here; The blue waves sparkled, and
the shore Seemed green instead of sear; My people sang — the castanets ..."
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