guiri
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed 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
editNoun
editguiri m (plural guiris)
Noun
editguiri 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 […]
- (dated, Spain, colloquial) police agent from la Guardia Civil
Derived terms
editReferences
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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