noun

• 1mainly derogatory (in India and other parts of Asia) a foreigner, especially one with white skin.

  ‘Europeans, too, are very little known here, and I heard the children continually calling out to us, as we passed through the villages, 'Feringhee'.’

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  • ‘The casualties on the winning side were four white and eight black soldiers killed, 14 feringhee and 36 native soldiers wounded!’
• 2 archaic A person of Indian–Portuguese parentage.