redneck

Significado (Inglés)

1. (US, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur, usually) A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.
2. (broadly, derogatory) yokel, hick, country bumpkin
3. (US, historical, slang) Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
4. (US, historical, slang) A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
5. (UK, archaic, slur) A Roman Catholic.

Conceptos

paleto

palurdo

pueblerino

Sinónimos

yokel

hillbilly

cracker

countryman

hick

rube

country bumpkin

bigot

chawbacon

boor

bumpkin

Traducciones

pecnot

beauf

caipira

baraki

Landei

Proll

χωριάτης

pignouf

cul-terreux

péquenaud

Redneck

redneck

lomp

boerenlul

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈɹɛdnɛk/

Etimología (Inglés)

Bahuvrīhi compound of red + neck. Compare rooinek. The term originally characterized farmers that had a red neck, caused by sunburn from long hours working in the fields.