Gringo, Greek : applied to what is said or written but not understood. to speak in Greek, in gibberish, in gringo. The 1817 Nuevo diccionario francés-español, for example, gives gringo and griego as synonyms in this context:
Spanish is known to have used Greek as a stand-in for incomprehensibility, though now less common, such as in the phrase hablar en griego (lit. The most likely theory is that it originates from griego ('Greek'), used in the same way as the English phrase "it's Greek to me". Gringos is what, in Malaga, they call foreigners who have a certain type of accent that prevents them from speaking Castilian easily and naturally and in Madrid they give the same name, and for the same reason, in particular to the Irish. GRINGOS, llaman en Málaga a los extranjeros, que tienen cierta especie de acento, que los priva de una locución fácil, y natural Castellana y en Madrid dan el mismo, y por la misma causa con particularidad a los Irlandeses. It was first recorded in 1787 in the Spanish Diccionario castellano con las voces de Ciencias y Artes: The word gringo originally referred to any kind of foreigner. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use in English comes from John Woodhouse Audubon's Western Journal of 1849–1850, in which Audubon reports that his party was hooted and shouted at and called "Gringoes" while passing through the town of Cerro Gordo, Veracruz. The word derives from the term used by the Spanish for a Greek person: griego. The term is often considered a pejorative, but is not always used to insult, and in the United States its usage and offensiveness is disputed. In Latin America, it is generally used to refer to non- Latin Americans. There are differences in meaning depending on region and country. Gringo ( / ˈ ɡ r iː n ɡ oʊ/, Spanish:, Portuguese: ) (masculine) (or gringa (feminine)) is a term in Spanish and Portuguese for a foreigner, usually an English-speaking Anglo-American. For other uses, see Gringo (disambiguation).
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