redneck

English

Etymology

Compound of red +‎ neck. Compare rooinek.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdnɛk/

Noun

redneck (plural rednecks)

(slang, pejorative) A poor, rural, especially white Southern person (of either gender); especially, one who is regarded as unsophisticated, rude, racist, and/or lowbrow, etc.
(historical, slang) Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.^[1]
(historical, slang) A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.^[2]
(Britain, archaic, 19th and 20th centuries) A Roman Catholic.^[3]

Synonyms

bogan (Australia), cracker, hick, hillbilly, peckerwood, white trash

Derived terms

Translations

uneducated, unsophisticated person

Chinese:
Mandarin: 土包子 (zh) (tǔbāozi), 鄉巴佬 (zh), 乡巴佬 (zh) (xiāngbalǎo)
Finnish: punaniska, juntti (fi)
French: beauf (fr) m, baraki (fr) m (Belgium)
Galician: pailán
German: Prolet (de) m, Proll (de) m

Icelandic: jói
Navajo: kʼos łichíʼí
Polish: burak (pl) m
Portuguese: caipira (pt)
Russian: дереве́нщина (ru) m, f (derevénščina), неве́жда (ru) m, f (nevéžda), не́уч (ru) m (néuč), лох (ru) m (lox) (slang)
Spanish: paleto m

References

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