List of words meaning outsider, foreigner or "not one of us"
This is a list of words meaning outsider, foreigner or "not one of us". Though often such words are not used with an intent of disrespect nor contempt, their nature of non-inclusion sometimes makes them offensive terms.
Words which have not been fully appropriated into the English language are in italics.
- Ajami – ancient Arabs
- Alien – a general-purpose term; ranging from foreingers to extraterrestrials
- Anirani – ancient Iran
- Ausländer – German
- Barbarian – Rome – Latin & Greek
- Babylon – Rastafari movement – Akkadian
- Carpetbagger – Reconstruction-era U.S. South
- Cheechako – Alaska
- chuzhak – чужак – Russian language
- city slicker – Countryside
- English – Amish – Pennsylvania-Dutchified English
- Erdaldun – Basque language, a speaker of a foreign tongue (usually Spanish or French)
- Farang – Thailand – Thai– (An English language magazine by the same name is published there specifically for the expatriate community).
- Flatlander – Vermont
- Gadje/Gorgio – Roma (people) – Romany
- Gaijin – Japan – Japanese (although these days gaikokujin is becoming popular because of its "softer" meaning.)
- Gentile – Mormonism – Judaism – Latin
- Giaur – non-Muslim (infidel)
- Goy – Judaism – Hebrew
- Guiri – Spanish language
- Gweilo – Hong Kong – Cantonese
- Haole – Hawaii – Hawaiian, also adopted colloquially with the same definition by other indigenous island cultures as far away as Palau
- Hick – Cities
- Infidel – Christianity – Latin
- Laowai – China
- Newbie – Internet culture
- NOCD (NOKD) – 'Not Our Class (Kind), Dear' – United States
- Pākehā – New Zealand – New Zealand English adapted from Māori
- Paleface – used by Native Americans
- Shaguts – Judaism – Yiddish
- Shiksa – Judaism – Yiddish
- Square (slang) – Jazz
- Textile – nudism
- Utböling – Swedish language
- Vanilla – BDSM
- Waiguoren – China, Taiwan
- Weigukin in Korea
- Welsh – English – Old English
- Wog – British Empire
- Worldly – Jehovah's Witnesses – English
- Zugereister – Germany, Austria – German
- Zugezogener – Germany, Austria – German