Definition of "furriner" [furriner]

• Dialectal variant of foreigner (noun)

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