guiri

Borrowed 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡiɾi/ [ˈɡi.ɾi]
• Rhymes: -iɾi
• Syllabification: gui‧ri

guiri m (plural guiris)

1. (botany) gorse, furze

   Synonym: tojo

guiri m or f by sense (plural guiris)

1. (historical) a supporter of Queen Isabella II of Spain

   Synonym: cristino

2. (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:

     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:)

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3. (dated, Spain, colloquial) police agent from la Guardia Civil

• 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

• “guiri”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014