redneck
Meaning
- (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.
- (broadly, derogatory) yokel, hick, country bumpkin
- (US, historical, slang) Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
- (US, historical, slang) A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
- (UK, archaic, slur) A Roman Catholic.
Translations
pecnot
caipira
paleto
Proll
χωριάτης
lompFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɹɛdnɛk/
Etymology
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.
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