guiri
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Basque giristino, the Basque adaptation of the Spanish cristino, the term for the liberal forces in the Spanish Carlist Wars, after the then Queen Cristina.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
guiri m (plural guiris)
Noun[edit]
guiri m or f by sense (plural guiris)
- (historical) a supporter of Queen Isabella II of Spain
- Synonym: cristino
- (Spain, colloquial) a foreign tourist, normally referring to fair-skinned tourist on package holidays on the Spanish Mediterranean coast from the mid-twentieth century
- 2019 May 16, Àlex Montoya, “'City for Sale': alerta turista en Barcelona”, in El Mundo[1]:
- Las políticas de la vivienda, con carta blanca para la especulación y el gangsterismo inmobiliario, y la invasión guiri, como Daenerys a lomos de Drogon, son armas de destrucción masiva: (Housing politics, with a carte blanche for speculation, real estate gangsterism and the guiri invasion, like Daenerys riding the back of Drogon, are weapons of mass destruction:)
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (dated, Spain, colloquial) police agent from la Guardia Civil
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- guiri in Using Spanish synonyms, By Ronald Ernest Batchelor, p. 312 .
- DRAE Diccionario de la Real Academia de la Lengua, originally 1925 (defined as a 'Carlist'), and later versions
Further reading[edit]
- “guiri”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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