redneck

English

Etymology

Compound of red +‎ neck. Compare rooinek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdnɛk/

• Audio (AU):

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Noun

redneck (plural rednecks)

1. (slang, derogatory) A poor, rural, usually white and male, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and northeast, especially one who is unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being rude, racist, and/or arrogant.
2. (historical, slang, US) Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
3. (historical, slang, US) A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
4. (UK, 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／乡巴佬 (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
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• Icelandic: jói
• Navajo: kʼos łichíʼí
• Polish: burak (pl) m
• Portuguese: caipira (pt)
• Russian: дереве́нщина (ru) m or f (derevénščina), неве́жда (ru) m or f (nevéžda), не́уч (ru) m (néuč), лох (ru) m (lox) (slang)
• Spanish: paleto m