redneck

English

Etymology

Compound of red +‎ neck. Compare rooinek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdnɛk/

Noun

redneck (plural rednecks)

1. (slang, pejorative) A poor, rural, especially white Southern person (of either gender); especially, one who is regarded as unsophisticated and/or lowbrow, etc.
2. (slang) The nickname given to miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
3. (slang) The nickname given to Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
4. (Britain, archaic) The nickname given to Roman Catholics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Synonyms

• cracker, hick, hillbilly, peckerwood, white trash

Derived terms

• redneckish
• redneckism
• rednecky

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