redneck

English

Etymology

Compound of red +‎ neck. Compare rooinek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdnɛk/

Noun

redneck (plural rednecks)

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

Synonyms

• bogan (Australia), 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 (fi), 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