foreigneering cove n.
a foreigner; also foreigneering adj.
Ladies’ Museum Jan. 36/1: As to Mr. Higgs, he hated all those foreigneering people. | ||
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Mag. Feb. 238/2: The Foreigneering Heavy Swell has much more spirit, talent, and manner, than the home-grown article. | ||
Young Tom Hall (1926) 273: I ’ope this will be a lesson to all mammas, how they let these nasty, intriguing foreigneering chaps come about their daughters. | ||
Lewis Arundel 13: He made a noise at me in French, or some other wicked foreigneering lingo. | ||
Daily News in (1909) 135/2: We have no passion for ribbons, and orders, and all the tinsel trappings of aliens or ‘foreigneering coves’, as they are termed in the simple language of ‘Those in the Know’. |