Savage is a derogatory term to describe a person or people the speaker regards as primitive and uncivilized. It has predominantly been used to describe...

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...

North America and the term eventually became a playground insult. United States portal Language portal Savage (pejorative term) Competitive altruism Ethnic...

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...

poor rural whites in the Southern United States. Although commonly a pejorative, it is also used in a neutral context, particularly in reference to a...

conversation, print advertising and household items as a pejorative descriptor for black people. The term is now considered offensive in American and British...

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...

Aeolic-speakers) and also fellow Athenians in a pejorative and politically motivated manner. The term also carried a cultural dimension to its dual meaning...

early 20th century. As English kaffir and Afrikaans kaffer, the term became a pejorative slur for Bantus and other black groups, including Cape Coloureds...

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...

language reforms; for example, the character for the term yáo was changed, replaced this graphic pejorative meaning "jackal" with another one – a homophone...

"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]...

term is noted as having pejorative overtones by modern dictionaries. Its derogatory connotations evolved from its use in pejorative contexts regarding Chinese...

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...

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...

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...

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...

the term shiksa did not enter mainstream vernacular until the works of Philip Roth popularized it. The term is typically considered pejorative but not...

Mob rule or ochlocracy or mobocracy is a pejorative term describing an oppressive majoritarian form of government controlled by the common people through...

McMansion is a pejorative term for a large, "mass-produced" house in a suburban community that is marketed to the upper middle class in developed countries...

monkeys", sometimes shortened to "surrender monkeys", is a pejorative term for French people. The term was coined in 1995 by Ken Keeler, a writer for the television...

alternative. Compare with güero. As a word for foreigner, the term can have pejorative intent, and many Westerners residing in Indonesia find it stereotypical...

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...

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...

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...

including the Spanish and Portuguese word negro ('black') and the now-pejorative French nègre. Etymologically, negro, noir, nègre, and nigger ultimately...

Aleut, and other individuals consider the term Eskimo, which is of a disputed etymology, to be pejorative or even offensive. Eskimo continues to be used...

Cantonese slang term for Westerners. In the absence of modifiers, it refers to white people and has a history of racially deprecatory and pejorative use. Cantonese...

Black Diamond is a term used pejoratively in South Africa to refer to a member of the new black middle class. The term was not originally derogatory....

research on attitudes of the British public to pejoratives. It ranked Paki as the tenth severest pejorative in the English language, up from seventeenth...