- 1外國佬（拉美蔑稱，尤指白人英語人士；台灣討論時多直接講 gringo，不要當稱呼用）
Gringo is a Spanish word used in parts of Latin America for a , most often a white person who speaks English. books mark it as very offensive, and that is the safe rule for you: do not use it. Tone changes by country, by who is speaking, and by whether it is aimed at someone in the room; you cannot hear that temperature from Taiwan, so you should not try it as a joke. Some people tell a story that it comes from English “green, go” and soldiers in green clothes. That is a folk tale. The word was borrowed from Spanish gringo, from griego, “Greek” — once a way to name anyone whose language you could not follow. It is a of English Greek. If you must talk about the idea, say , American, or the person’s country; leave gringo in the texts where you found it.
組成Borrowed from Spanish gringo, from griego (“Greek”), used for a person whose speech sounded foreign. Doublet of English Greek.
同家族的字
- Greeksame older root: Spanish griego “Greek” was stretched to mean “someone whose language you cannot understand”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gringonoun/ˈɡɹɪŋɡəʊ/
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derogatoryA white person from an English-speaking country, particularly the United States.
- Truly it is as Don José tells me; these gringos have come but to make trouble where all was peace.
- Indeed, much like her predecessor and mentor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Sheinbaum has perfected the art of doing the gringos’ dirty work while purporting to act in a “sovereign” fashion – and even to defy the imperial overlords to the north.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。