GRINGO • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Gringo

... almost a stiffness, in his manner which made him a marked man among them, and would have made him a butt to the wits and bullies among his comrades but for his pride and deadly power. To be mocked as a foreigner, a gringo, an inferior being, was what he could not stand, and the result was that he had to fight, and it then came as a disagreeable revelation that when Jack fought he fought to kill. This was considered bad form; for though men were often killed when fighting, the gaucho's idea is that you ...

— Far Away and Long Ago • W. H. Hudson

... that I had gone off to the ends of the earth with a confounded Gringo Yankee, and I was gone so long she thought ...

— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 • Various