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"etymology_text": "Possibly from griego (“Greek”), particularly from the phrase hablar en griego (“to speak Greek”), with a similar connotation to the English phrase it's all Greek to me. Possibly influenced by peregrino (“pilgrim”). Or else due to the ubiquity of the song Green Grow the Lilacs among the men who settled the interior of the American continent.",
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"ref": "1786, Esteban de Terroros y Pando, Beatriz Varela, Diccionario castellano con las voces de Ciencias y Artes y sus correspondientes en las 3 lenguas francesa, latina e italiana; quoted in “Ethnic nicknames of Spanish origin in American English”, in Félix Rodríguez González, editor, Spanish Loanwords in the English Language: A Tendency towards Hegemony Reversal, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996, page 143",
"text": "... gringos, llaman en Málaga a los extranjeros, que tienen cierta especie de acento, que los priva de una locución fácil, y natural Castellana; y en Madrid dan el mismo, y por la misma causa con particularidad a los irlandeses.",
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"text": "Pero la realidad es más terca que la corrección política, y el hecho real es que Barack Obama, próximo presidente de los Estados Unidos, es un gringo, y es un negro. O, si se prefiere así, es un negro, y es un gringo.",
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"ipa": "[ˈɡɾĩŋ.ɡo]"
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"ref": "1786, Esteban de Terroros y Pando, Beatriz Varela, Diccionario castellano con las voces de Ciencias y Artes y sus correspondientes en las 3 lenguas francesa, latina e italiana; quoted in “Ethnic nicknames of Spanish origin in American English”, in Félix Rodríguez González, editor, Spanish Loanwords in the English Language: A Tendency towards Hegemony Reversal, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996, page 143",
"text": "... gringos, llaman en Málaga a los extranjeros, que tienen cierta especie de acento, que los priva de una locución fácil, y natural Castellana; y en Madrid dan el mismo, y por la misma causa con particularidad a los irlandeses.",
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"ref": "2008 October 8, Antonio Caballero, “El negro gringo (o el gringo negro)”, in Semana, retrieved 2014-08-01",
"text": "Pero la realidad es más terca que la corrección política, y el hecho real es que Barack Obama, próximo presidente de los Estados Unidos, es un gringo, y es un negro. O, si se prefiere así, es un negro, y es un gringo.",
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"(sometimes derogatory, Latin America) an American (a person from the United States), especially a white American."
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"ipa": "/ˈɡɾinɡo/"
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"ipa": "[ˈɡɾĩŋ.ɡo]"
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],
"wikipedia": [
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"word": "gringo"
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