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touron

touron noun: a tourist who acts in an ignorant or idiotic manner. Also the alternative form of turron.

Noun

touron (plural tourons)

  1. (park ranger slang) A tourist who acts in an ignorant or idiotic manner.
    • I peeled off my trencher and looped it through the shoulderstrap of my greatpurse. The youngest pickers eyed me wantonly. But they soon spotted me as a native and went back to hustling the tourons.1986, Charles Fernandez, “The Salvaging of Santa Claus”, in Popular Fiction by Oregon Authors, Eugene, O.R.: A Is A Literary Services, →ISBN, page 63
    • I'd followed a station wagon jam-packed with tourons from New Hampshire all the way out Highway 130, and it pleased me when they slowed to a sedate twenty miles per hour as soon as they passed the town's boundary line, which meant they'd seen the Harry Starbranch unmanned traffic-control device and...1995, Gregory Bean, No Comfort in Victory, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 35

Also used as

touron is also the alternative form of turron.

Examples of touron in a sentence

  • In the morning the police sharpsters hacked their way through my screen door with machetes, two hysterical tourons in tow.1998, Mark Richard, “Fun at the Beach”, in Charity: Stories, New York, N.Y. […]: Doubeday, →ISBN, page 63:
  • You know so many folks are losing their jobs and things won't pick up till the winter tourons get here."2017, Mary Sojourner, “Cyndra Won't Get out of the Truck”, in The Talker: Short Stories, Salt Lake City, U.T.: Torrey House Press, →ISBN...

Forms of touron

pluraltourons

Origin of touron

Blend of tourist + moron.

Borrowed from French touron. Doublet of turron.

Questions about touron

What does touron mean?
Touron means a tourist who acts in an ignorant or idiotic manner.
How do you use touron in a sentence?
In the morning the police sharpsters hacked their way through my screen door with machetes, two hysterical tourons in tow.
What part of speech is touron?
Touron is a noun.
What is the plural of touron?
The plural of touron is tourons.

Words near touron in the dictionary

  1. tournure
  2. tournures
  3. Tournus
  4. Touro
  5. tourography
  6. touron
  7. touronaut
  8. touronauts
  9. tourons
  10. Tourret
  11. tours

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