redneck en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈɹɛdnɛk/
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
Bahuvrīhi compound of red + neck. Compare rooinek. The term originally characterized farmers that had a red neck, caused by sunburn from long hours working in the fields.
Meanings
- (US, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur, usually) A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.
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(broadly, derogatory) yokel, hick, country bumpkin
Sample a look back you look and find / Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check
1989, “Fight the Power”, in Fear of a Black Planet, performed by Public Enemy:
- (US, historical, slang) Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
- (US, historical, slang) A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
- (UK, archaic, qualifier:19th and 20th centuries, slur) A Roman Catholic.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| rednecks | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
redneckese · blackneck · redneckery · leftneck · redneckian · rednecky · redneckism · redneckification · redneckish · redneckitis · redneck jacuzzi · Fredneck · redneck hot tub
Synonyms
skeet · carl · ocker · scally · pikey · skanger · sweeper · hillbilly · scutter · scanger · woolly back · benny · scunner · country cousin · hayseed · gippo · snoopy · knacker · hick · gazza · bam · scumbag · poor white trash · spide · scoundrel · hunk · scuffer · scratter · herbert · corncob · kev · hob · white trash · bucolic · chav · joskin · scrubber · pleb · radgie · honyock · trailer trash · ned · lob · adlay · scrote · dumbo · cornhusker · dobber · culchie · puffy · eshay · yob · thug · redneck · nob · rube · brush · steek · scobe · bogan · bopper · promdi · mev · rudie · clodhopper · trev · rustic · thugette · hog-rubber · bogan · prole · vic · sham · smick · white trash · hood rat · yokel · Barry boy · cracker · schemie · hick · bazza · peckerwood · roadman · wigger · boor · bogtrotter · hobnail · country bumpkin · yarco · dresser · scrub · dubbo · smackhead · bogger · churl · charver · provincial · charva · bydlo · yobbo · rudeboy · townie · Westie · stig
Translations (46)
ru неве́жда (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · nb redneck (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · ru лох (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · mk се́лјак (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · de Landpomeranze (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · cmn 鄉巴佬 /乡巴佬 (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · ru не́уч (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · nn bondeknøl (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · da bondeknold (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · fi punaniska (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · eo kampulo (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · da bondetamp (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · fr baraki (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · nv kʼos łichíʼí (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · es paleto (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · scn zurbu (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · scn smardu (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · da bonderøv (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · nb bondetamp (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · pt saloio (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · scn zagurdu (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · yi פּויער (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · lt runkelis (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · ru дереве́нщина (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · yi זשלאָב (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · la ruricola (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · pt caipira (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · eo kamparanaĉo (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · bg селяндур (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · pt labrego (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · cmn 土包子 (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · pl burak (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · fi juntti (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · de Prolet (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · fr beauf (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · de Hinterwäldler (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · de Proll (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · scn zallu (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · is jói (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · it zotico (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · gl pailán (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · it cafone (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · tr çomar (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · de Landei (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · yi העקמענטש (uneducated, unsophisticated person) · it zoticone (uneducated, unsophisticated person)