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A number of words, such as newbie, epigone, dilettante that have a different meaning of persons with inferior expertise may also be used in the sense of an outsider with respect to a class of "experts".

Similarly, the terms such as

Alphabetical list

Legend:

- Words which have not been fully appropriated into the English language are in italics.

- Words that have lost their original meaning in English are marked by "—".

- Words that have a different original meaning in English are marked by "+".

- Words that are a direct translation of "alien", "foreigner" or similar are marked by "=".

A–D

• Abyath - Means White person in Arabic. (referred to foreigners).
• Persian
  , due to the Persians' lack of fluency in Arabic and because they were the main non-Arab people with whom the Arabs had contact.
• Ajaniib —
  Arabic for foreigner, said of stateless Kurds in Syria. [1]
• Aglasiew — Mi'kmaq term for Europeans.
• Alien — A general-purpose term; ranging from foreigners to extraterrestrials. [2]
• Hokkien dialect meaning "red-haired," said of Caucasians, principally in Maylaysia and Singapore. [3]
• Rastafari movement believes that Babylon "is the historically white-European colonial and imperialist power structure which has oppressed Blacks and other peoples of color." [4]
• Barang – In Cambodia "these days the term barang applies to pretty much anybody white." [5] [6] Ultimately from European tribal name of Franks, via Arabic; [7] [8]; see also the entries for falang, farangi, etc., below.
• Barbarian – Barbaros, a non-Greek in Ancient Greece. The accepted version of the term's origin is that it came "originally from the sound bar-bar, which, according to the Greeks, was supposed to be the noise that people made when speaking foreign languages." [9]
• Bideshi – "[T]o denote foreigners in the dialect of Bengali that my family speaks we say bideshi" — desh meaning country; thus Bangladesh is country of the Bengalis [10]. For a similar attestation to the meaning of this word, see [11].
• Biganeh — Persian, literally meaning unknown. One source states the word is also used to mean eccentric, when applied to "the revolutionary left and the secular right" in Iran [12]. In a widely read translation of a Persian book, That Stranger Within Me: A Foreign Woman Caught in the Iranian Revolution, the word is translated as stranger. [13]
• Boston – Used by indigenous people in the Pacific Northwest to describe any outsider (after the European settlement of the area)[14]
• childfree people [16] [17]
  .
• U.S. South
  . Primarily used for Northern (US) profiteers following the (US) Civil War.
• CFA ("Come-from-away") — Used in
  Newfoundland to refer to a tourist. [18] [19]
• Cheechako — Somebody new to Alaska [20], from Chinook Jargon, a trade language spoken in earlier years in that territory. [21]
• City slicker – A "city dweller with sophisticated manners and clothing" [22]. A "person from the big city who thinks country people are dumb" (in Anna on the Farm, by Mary Downing Hahn, page 31. [23])
• Civil Slave - Somebody who belongs to the working class, used as a slang within the Hare Krishna movement.
• Country bumpkin — An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) states the origin of bumpkin is a French word, which an earlier dictionary (Cotgrave, 1610), defined as a certain block of wood used on a sailing vessel. "Hence, a clumsy man may easily have been compared to such a block of wood." Bumpkin is related to boom, a pole. [24] The poet Washington Irving wrote about bashful country bumpkins in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. [25]