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- noun Plural form of
furriner .
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Examples
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"I've no faith in furriners," sighed Cousin Sophia.
Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud 1921
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You have to formally apply for citizenship and pass a test (a fairly easy test about the Constitution, etc., but, ironically, one that naturalized citizens -- e.g., former "furriners" -- are consequently likely to do better on than us here natural born citizens).
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An island or Europe (naaahhhh, he wouldn’t like all then funny-speakin furriners).
Think Progress » “Left-Wing Radical”: Hannity Kicks Off Next Wilson Smear Campaign 2005
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Jonadab's idea of talkin 'to furriners is to yell at 'em as if they was stone deef.
The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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"furriners" - domestically, between 6 million and 8 million people.
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In this color-war scenario, citizens of our red zone -- the central swath where towns are small, skies big and churches crowded -- are perpetually swapping sneers and jeers with their counterparts in the blue zone, the densely populated Northeastern and coastal states where (presumably) frolic our criminals, "furriners" and godless cosmopolitans.
My Red And Blue Life 2008
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I thought he said something about "furriners,"'replied Sarah.
Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin
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Hindhaugh determined grimly that if rapidity could do anything he would teach the "furriners" a lesson for trying to swindle him.
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There weren't to be any Ites or any other "furriners" left alive to pester his chosen people.
Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Anna Bishop Scofield
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Many of the Big Wreck Cove folk looked upon them even now as "furriners" who had to be shouted at if one would make them understood.
Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod James A. Cooper 1917
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