Guiri

A slang term used in Spain to refer to foreign visitors. Originally, 'guiri' referred to fair-skinned Northern Europeans on package holidays (from the mid-twentieth century). The stereotype of a guiri is a sunburned fair-haired English-speaking white person wearing shorts, socks, sandals, sunglasses and with a camera in full view.

Although the original definition of a guiri suggested someone who could not speak Spanish properly or at all, it is also now commonly used to describe people of non-Spanish ethnicity who have lived and worked in Spain for many years and are conversant with Spanish language and culture. Calling such people guiri, in order to demarcate them as non-Hispanic or foreign, can be interpreted as derogatory at best, or racist at worst.

Guiri is included as a coloquial form for tourist as a 3rd entry of this noun on the Official Dictionary of the Spanish Academy (on the 22th edition) from the Real Academia Española de la Lengua. Other entrys are: 1st) a Plant 2nd) a historic name for Carlists and even a 4th entry for Police.