Savage is a derogatory term to describe a person or people the speaker regards as primitive and uncivilized. It has predominantly been used to refer to...
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Look up Savage or savage in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Savage may refer to: Savage (pejorative term), a derogatory term to describe a member of...
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North America and the term eventually became a playground insult. United States portal Language portal Savage (pejorative term) Competitive altruism Ethnic...
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List of terms used for Germans (redirect from Pejorative terms for Germans)
standard terms. Many pejorative terms for Germans in various countries originated during the two World Wars. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers...
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conversation, print advertising and household items as a pejorative descriptor for black people. The term is now considered offensive in American and British...
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Also referred by the euphemistic contraction C-word, it is commonly a pejorative, though is also used in a neutral context, particularly in reference to...
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List of ethnic slurs (redirect from Frog (pejorative))
intention of causing offense. The connotation of a term and prevalence of its use as a pejorative or neutral descriptor varies over time and by geography...
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early 20th century. As English kaffir and Afrikaans kaffer, the term became a pejorative slur for Bantus and other black groups, including Cape Coloureds...
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Guido (slang) (redirect from Guido (pejorative))
"guido" is a derogatory term for stereotypical working class or lower class Italian-American males and "a pejorative term applied to lower-class, [Italian-American]...
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Gay (redirect from Gay (term))
commonly used to refer specifically to men. At about the same time, a new, pejorative use became prevalent in some parts of the world. Among younger speakers...
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word is used mostly by African-Americans in a largely non-pejorative sense as a slang term referring to another black person or to themselves, often in...
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people as a pejorative term for a black person. Possibly from Portuguese barracos, a building constructed to hold slaves for sale (1837). The term (though...
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Wop (category Pejorative terms for European people)
Wop is a pejorative term for Italians or people of Italian descent. The Merriam-Webster dictionary states wop's first known use was in the United States...
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Cuckold (category Pejorative terms for men)
spelling include dayyuth, dayuuth, or dayoos. The term has been criticised for its use as a pejorative while also suggestive of acceptance of vain paternalistic...
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attention in Indonesia is Mister. As a word for foreigner, the term can have pejorative intent, and many Westerners in Indonesia find it stereotypical...
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Barbarian (category Pejorative terms for people)
Aeolic-speakers) and also fellow Athenians in a pejorative and politically motivated manner. The term also carried a cultural dimension to its dual meaning...
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language reforms; for example, the character for the term yáo was changed, replaced this graphic pejorative meaning "jackal" with another one – a homophone...
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Industry plant (category Pejorative terms for people)
Industry plant is a pejorative used to describe musicians who become popular through nepotism, inheritance, wealth, or their connections in the music industry...
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Gweilo (category Pejorative terms for European people)
Cantonese slang term for Westerners. The term can be literally translated as "ghost man" and has a history of racially deprecatory and pejorative use, though...
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Chinaman (redirect from Chinaman (term))
term is noted as having pejorative overtones by modern dictionaries. Its derogatory connotations evolved from its use in pejorative contexts regarding Chinese...
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Republicrat (category Political pejoratives for people)
black and white alike". An equivalent term used in the United Kingdom is Lib-Lab-Con or LibLabCon, a pejorative portmanteau referring to the three main...
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Endonym and exonym (section Exonyms as pejoratives)
used in a pejorative way. For example, Romani people often prefer that term to exonyms such as Gypsy (from the name of Egypt), and the French term bohémien...
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Hoosier (category Pejorative demonyms)
that the word originated as a term along the Ohio River for flatboatmen from Indiana and did not acquire its pejorative meanings until 1836, after Finley's...
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the time. George Ruxton used it in his "mountain man" lexicon, without pejorative connotation. "Niggur" was evidently similar to the modern use of "dude"...
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Shiksa (category Pejorative terms for people)
the term shiksa did not enter mainstream vernacular until the works of Philip Roth popularized it. The term is typically considered pejorative but not...
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Rootless cosmopolitan (category Pejorative demonyms)
(Russian: безродный космополит, romanized: bezrodnyi kosmopolit) was a pejorative Soviet epithet which referred mostly to Jewish intellectuals as an accusation...
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reinforcement and as a pejorative term in various situations, particularly in London but also within Ireland itself. The term has sometimes been applied...
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Mob rule (category Pejorative terms for forms of government)
Mob rule or ochlocracy or mobocracy is a pejorative term describing an oppressive majoritarian form of government controlled by the common people through...
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Honky (category Pejorative terms for white people)
plants picked up the term from white workers and began applying it indiscriminately to all whites. Honky was adopted as a pejorative in 1967 by black militants...
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has been used as a racial slur for African American children and a pejorative term for Aboriginal children of the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand...
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