redneck

English

Etymology

Compound of red +‎ neck

Noun

redneck (plural rednecks)

1. (slang, pejorative) An uneducated, unsophisticated, or poor caucasian person, typically used to describe residents (of any gender) of the rural Southern US.
2. (slang) The nickname given to miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.

Synonyms

• cracker
• peckerwood
• white trash

Derived terms

• redneckish
• redneckism
• rednecky

Translations

uneducated, unsophisticated person

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 土包子 (cmn) (tǔbāozi), 鄉巴佬 (cmn), 乡巴佬 (cmn) (xiāngbalǎo)

• Finnish: punaniska (fi), juntti (fi)
• French: beauf (fr) m, baraki (fr) m (Belgium)
• German: Prolet (de) m

• Icelandic: jói (is)
• Navajo: kʼos łichíʼí
• Polish: burak (pl) m
• Portuguese: caipira (pt)
• Russian: деревенщина (ru) (derevénščina) m and f, невежда (ru) (nevéžda) m and f, неуч (ru) (néuč) m, лох (ru) (lox) m (slang)

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