redneck

§English

§Etymology

Compound of red +‎ neck.

§Noun

redneck (plural rednecks)

1. (slang, pejorative) An uneducated, unsophisticated, or poor caucasian person, typically used to describe residents (of any gender) of the rural Southern United States.
2. (slang) The nickname given to miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
3. (UK, 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 (xiāngbalǎo)

• Finnish: punaniska, juntti (fi)
• French: beauf (fr) m, baraki (fr) m (Belgium)
• German: Prolet (de) m, Proll m
• Icelandic: jói

• Navajo: kʼos łichíʼí
• Polish: burak (pl) m
• Portuguese: caipira (pt)
• Russian: деревенщина (ru) m, f (derevénščina), невежда (ru) m, f (nevéžda), неуч (ru) m (néuč), лох (ru) m (lox) (slang)
• Spanish: paleto m