Gabacho

"Gabacho" (feminine, "Gabacha") is a rather derogatory word used in Spanish to describe foreigners of different origins:
* In the United States it is used mainly by Mexican Americans (and by extension American Hispanics) as a pejorative name for White Americans. It is not widely used or understood by Spanish speakers in the Americas outside the USA and Mexico. The term Güero (disambiguation) or Huero is sometimes used interchangeably to describe someone who is pale skinned.
* In Mexico it refers to both the US citizens and their country ("El Gabacho"), especially as an alternative to the milder "gringo". It became widely used in Mexico during the French occupation as a term to refer to the invading French.
* In Spain, where the word was first used in Spanish, it was used in the first instance to describe people from the skirts of the Pyrenees and then, more generally, when referring to a person from France, which is its main use today. It is also used in Occitan for a rude mountain dweller who speaks the national language badly, this being the origin of the word that, by semantic sliding, was then applied to French people in Spain and to US Anglo-Saxon citizens in Mexico or the United States by Mexican-Americans.