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名詞

touron (plural tourons)

1. (park ranger slang) A tourist who acts in an ignorant or idiotic manner.
   • 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 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.

   • 1995, Gregory Bean, No Comfort in Victory, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 35:

     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 responded accordingly.

   • 1998, Mark Richard, “Fun at the Beach”, in Charity: Stories, New York, N.Y. […]: Doubeday, →ISBN, page 63:

     In the morning the police sharpsters hacked their way through my screen door with machetes, two hysterical tourons in tow. I was just going to point out where they could find the perpetrator of the previous night's driving atrocities, out playing in the sand on the beach, when the touron woman screamed That's the monster! The touron couple were shouting and pointing at me, ace bandages and bloody gauze around their necks.

   • 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, page 117:

     "I gotta slow down a little," Tyra said. "Business hasn't been great. You know so many folks are losing their jobs and things won't pick up till the winter tourons get here."

語源 2

Borrowed from French touron. Doublet of turron.

名詞

touron (plural tourons)

1. Alternative form of turron
   • 2010, André Dominé, editor, Food of France, English edition, Potsdam: 7Hill, →ISBN, page 368:

     The touron with the softest texture is Perpignan, where the maximum temperature is 251 °F (122 °C).

Further reading

• touron on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “touron”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.

アナグラム

• Routon, unroot, Toruno, on tour