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
• Anirani – ancient Iran
• Ausländer – German
• Barbarian – Rome – Latin & Greek
• Babylon – Rastafarianism – 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)
• Flatlander – Vermont
• Gadje /Gorgio – Roma (people) – Romany
• Gaijin – Japan – Japanese (although these days gaikokujin is becoming popular because of its "softer" meaning.)
• Gentile – Mormonism – Latin
• Goy – Judaism – Hebrew
• Guiri – Spanish language
• Gwailo – 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
• Shaguts – Judaism – Yiddish
• Shiksa – Judaism – Yiddish
• Square (slang) – Jazz
• Utböling – Swedish language
• 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

See also

• List of ethnic slurs