Gringo
WordNet
noun
(1) A Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen)
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From < , used for anyone who spoke an unintelligible language.
Check out a fuller discussion at Wikipedia. The word appears in an early 18th-century Diccionario Castellano, and was used in Spain to refer to anyone who spoke an unintelligible language, and probably came from the word for Greek - griego.
Noun
- A Caucasian-race foreigner.