crow

From Middle English crowe, from Old English crāwe, from Proto-West Germanic *krāā, from Proto-Germanic *krēǭ (compare West Frisian krie, Dutch kraai, German Krähe), from *krēaną (“to crow”). See below.

(ethnic slur, offensive, slang) A black person.


nigger

Sranan Tongo: nengre

Aukan: nengee

Saramaccan: në́ngë

Probably immediately from French nègre or Spanish and Portuguese negro (“a black African”); ultimately from Latin niger (“black”), thus a doublet of negro and noir. Compare Danish nigger, Swedish nigger, German Nigger, Dutch nikker. First use appears c. 1577, in the writings of Edward Hellowes (fl. 1574–1601). The expected Modern English pronunciation would be with /iː/; compare neger. The modern pronunciation with /ɪ/ may be due to influence from the Latin etymon (compare the older Southern US pronunciation of negro with /ɪ/), but compare the dialectal American pronunciations of eagle and eager as /ˈɪɡəl/ and /ˈɪɡɚ/.

чёрный

note: негр m (negr) and негритя́нка f (negritjánka) are neutral terms

حبشی

offensive if intended otherwise 'Male Ethiopian/Abyssian'

حبشن

offensive if intended otherwise 'Female Ethiopian/Abyssinian'

It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger—but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither.

1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XV, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 133:

“Othello with his occupation gone,” she teased. “Othello was a nigger,” I said.

1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 274:

You are not even a nigger, you are an African.

2004, Hotel Rwanda, spoken by Colonel Oliver (Nick Nolte):

(offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, see usage notes) A black person; a person of black African descent.

There's black people, and there's niggers. And niggers have got to go. Every time black people wanna have a good time, ign'ant-ass niggers fuck it up.

1996, Chris Rock: Bring the Pain, Chris Rock (actor):

See, niggers are followers, blacks normally lead.
Niggers call blacks "whitewash" soon as they on the scene.

2008, “The N Word”, in Greydon Square (music), The CPT Theorem:

Blacks stayed at home during the civil rights march. Niggers are the ones that marched.

2010 April 13, Kitty Kelley, quoting an unnamed town resident, Oprah: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: Crown, →ISBN, →OL, page 193:

...and as I was leaving it occurred to me. "Hey, hey, Renee, quick question[...] Why is it that I can say the word ‘nigger’ with impunity but I can't say the word ‘faggot’?" And she said, "Because, David, you are not gay." I said, "Well, Renee... I'm not a nigger either."

(offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, slang) A person of black African descent who behaves badly or unconventionally (whether the speaker approves or disapproves).

He never lost his appetite -
 He bigger grew and bigger;
 And proved, with every inch of height,
 A nigger is a nigger.

1880 June 19, Henry Kendall, “My Piccaninny”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 28, column 4:

Many of the rank and file had no better conception of the proud and sensitive Maori than was implied in the degrading ‘nigger’ theory, invariably applied by the unthinking Briton to all coloured races.

1902, George Stoddart Whitmore, The Last Maori War in New Zealand..., page vi:

"The public have taken no interest in the matter up to now, but this letter of Challenger's in the Times will make them wake up, I'm thinking." "And this about Sumatra?" "Well, it's a long cry from a blurred line in a spectrum to a sick nigger in Sumatra. And yet the chiel has shown us once before that he knows what he's talking about."

1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

[H]e commenced to kill Indians. We needed no second invitation. God it was a butchery. At the first fire we killed a round dozen and we did not let up. Before the last poor nigger reached the bottom of the slope there was fifty-eight of them lay slaughtered among the gravels. They just slid down the slope like chaff down a hopper, some turned this way, some that, and they made a chain about the base of the mountain

1985, Cormac McCarthy, “Chapter 10”, in blood Meridian, Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC:

At Crescent Lake in Oneida County, Hubert Locke, who is black and serves as the Dean of the University of Washington's School of Public Affairs, was confronted with words to the effect of, "Now the Commission has a nigger working for them" and "I guess there are two kinds of niggers—red niggers and black niggers"[...] These blatant manifestations of racism directed toward Mr. Locke serve to illustrate the racist attitudes experienced daily by tribal members.

1988, James H. Schlender, quotee, “Written Testimony of James H. Schlender, Executive Administrator, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, May 18, 1988”, in Anti-Indian Violence: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session, May 4 and 18, 1988, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, published 1989, →OCLC, page 197:

(offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, see usage notes) A member of any typically dark-skinned people (now especially in combinations like prairie nigger or sand nigger).


nigger

niggeren (definite singular)
niggerar (indefinite plural)
niggerane (definite plural)

From English nigger, a distortion of neger, from French nègre or Spanish and Portuguese negro. Doublet of neger (“black person”).


brown

en-noun

brown (countable and uncountable, plural browns)

Bislama: braon

Tok Pisin: braun

→ Welsh: brown

→ Tongan: palauni

From Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-. Doublet of bruin.
cognates
* Dutch bruin
* German braun
* Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”)
* Latin brunneus (“brown”)
* Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)
* Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)
* West Frisian brún

heinäperhonen

nymphalid butterfly of subfamily Satyrinae

Many browns and blacks are immigrants — some of whom have not yet become naturalized citizens of the United States.

2005, Kristen A. Myers, Racetalk: Racism Hiding in Plain Sight:

(sometimes capitalised, countable, informal, ethnic slur) A person of Latino, Middle Eastern or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto, or biracial appearance.


brown

en-verb

brown (third-person singular simple present browns, present participle browning, simple past and past participle browned)

browns (present singular third-person)
browning (participle present)
browned (participle past)
browned (past)

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

the browning of America

(demography, transitive, intransitive, slang, ethnic slur, usually derogatory, offensive) To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.


Guinea

→ Japanese: ギニア (Ginia)

Borrowed from Portuguese Guiné, which is of uncertain origin.

(derogatory US slang, ethnic slur) Someone of Italian descent in the United States.


Dutch

en-adj

Dutch (comparative more Dutch or Dutcher, superlative most Dutch or Dutchest)

more Dutch (comparative)
Dutcher (comparative)
most Dutch (superlative)
Dutchest (superlative)

PIE word
 *tewtéh₂
Derived from Middle English Duch (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Middle Low German dütsch, düdesch (“German, Low German, Dutch”) and Middle Dutch dūtsch, duutsc (“German, Low German, Dutch”), from Proto-West Germanic *þiudisk, from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of one’s people”), derived from *þeudō (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂. Doublet of Deutsch and Doitsu.
Compare Middle English thedisch (“native, endemic”) from Old English þēodisċ (“of one’s people”), Old Saxon thiudisk (German Low German düütsch (“German”)), Old High German diutisc (modern German deutsch (“German”)), modern Dutch Duits (“German”) alongside elevated Diets (“Dutch”) (a secondary distinction, fully accepted only in the 19th century). See also Derrick, Teuton, Teutonic.
The pejorative senses (Dutch courage, Dutch wife, Dutch uncle, etc.) are said to stem from the Anglo-Dutch Wars and the accompanying rivalry.

cog

(South Africa, derogatory, ethnic slur) Pertaining to Afrikaner culture (Cape Dutch).


Dutch

(collective, South Africa, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Afrikaner people (Cape Dutch).


pommy

From pom + -y (“diminutive suffix”). Australian from 1912.

A gleam of humour, a moment of beautiful pommy arrogance.

1991, A Stranger's Trust, Emma Richmond:

That is, of course, until Australian movie stars like Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman proved that they could sell tickets in the West End so long as they could play at being what Rees calls a ‘movie siren’ with a convincing ‘fake pommy accent’.

2003, Susan Bradley Smith, “12: Rhetoric, reconciliation and other national pastimes: showcasing contemporary Australian theatre in London”, in Elizabeth Schafer, Susan Bradley Smith, editors, Playing Australia: Australian Theatre and the International Stage, page 201:

athol wrote:[…]> IIRC, "hood lining" is the more pommy terminology. :-)

2005 February 24, feral, “Hello, Hello”, in aus.cars (Usenet):

(Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, derogatory) English; British.


gringo

Borrowed from Spanish gringo, from griego (“Greek”), used for anyone who spoke an unintelligible language. Doublet of Greek.

Truly it is as Don José tells me; these gringos have come but to make trouble where all was peace.

2017, B. M. Bower, The Gringos: The Tale of the California Gold Rush Days:

(slang, often derogatory) A white person from an English-speaking country, particularly the United States.

美國佬

a white person from an English-speaking country


Englishman

/ˈɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ.mən/

From Middle English Englishman, Inglishman, from Old English Englisċman, Englisċmon, corresponding to English + -man. Compare Old Norse Englismaðr (“Englishman”).

... others, an aging Englishman who would do anything to further his fortune ...

2017, David Bélanger, Béatrice G. Martineau, Charles Grenier, “Kona”, in Kona, Canada: Parabole:

(Quebec, dated, ethnic slur) A Canadian of British descent and/or whose first language is English (as opposed to French-descended, French-speaking Canadians).

Fucking above your head Englishman!

2008, Christopher-Lee dos Santos, At thy Call, Dino Pappas and Ksenija Micic:

(South Africa, dated, ethnic slur) A South African of British descent, and/or whose first language is English (as opposed to Afrikaans-speaking Afrikaner South Africans).


apple

Book of Genesis
Frans Floris
Malmö Art Museum
The Fall of Man

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl
Proto-Germanic *aplaz
Proto-West Germanic *applu
Old English æppel
Middle English appel
English apple
The noun is derived from Middle English appel (“Malus domestica fruit or tree, apple; any type of fruit, nut, or tuber; tree bearing fruit; (figurative) ball, sphere; (Christianity) forbidden fruit in Eden”), from Old English æppel (“apple; any type of fruit; (figurative) ball, sphere; eyeball”), from Proto-West Germanic *applu (“apple; any type of fruit”), from Proto-Germanic *aplaz (“apple; any type of fruit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ébōl, *h₂ébl̥ (“apple”).
As regards sense 1.4 (“forbidden fruit”), the type of fruit eaten by Adam and Eve is not identified in the Book of Genesis in the Bible. It may have come to be identified with the apple because of the similarity between Latin mālum (“apple”) and malum (“evil; misery, torment; wrongdoing”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
Cognate with Danish æble, Dutch appel, German Apfel, Irish úll, Lithuanian óbuolỹs, Russian я́блоко (jábloko), Scots aipple, Swedish äpple, Welsh afal, West Frisian apel, possibly Ancient Greek ἄμπελος (ámpelos, “vine”).

ref

From the collection of the Malmö Art Museum in Malmö, Scania, Sweden.

чӏва

common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus; fruit of the tree Malus domestica

omena

something which resembles the fruit of Malus domestica in shape or colour

the apple doesn't fall far from the tree

the apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

My ancestors five generations removed were "apples" who were "White" on the inside and "Red" on the outside. […] We need a new breed of "apples."

1996, Joel Spring, “From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Ford: The End of the Choctaw Republic”, in The Cultural Transformation of A Native American Family and Its Tribe 1763–1995: A Basket of Apples, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2011, →DOI, →ISBN, part II (The Choctaw Republic and Its People):

The presenter, close to tears, told the audience that she's really an apple—white on the inside and red on the outside—Native American.

1998, Opal J. Moore, “‘From the Back of the Bus to the Back of the National Priority List’: The Civil Rights Movement, Integration, and beyond [Git that Gal a Red Dress: A Conversation Between Female Faculty at a State School in Virginia]”, in Daryl Cumber Dance, editor, Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African American Women’s Humor, New York, N.Y.: W[illiam] W[arder] Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 537:

(US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Native American or redskinned person who acts or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.

Native American
Native American#Adjective


pinky

en-noun

pinky (countable and uncountable, plural pinkies)

(offensive, slang, ethnic slur) A white person.


zebra

1600; borrowed from Italian zebra, from Portuguese zebra, zebro (“zebra”), from Old Galician-Portuguese enzebro, ezebra, azebra (“wild ass”), from earlier cebrario (882), ezebrario (897), from Vulgar Latin *eciferus, from Latin equiferus (“wild horse”) (Pliny), from equus (“horse”) + ferus (“wild”).
While the word was traditionally pronounced with a long vowel in the first syllable in standard English, during the twentieth century a vowel shift occurred in regions of England, with the shortening of the first vowel. This pronunciation is now used throughout the UK and most Commonwealth nations. The long-vowel pronunciation remains standard in Canadian and American English.
(unlikely diagnosis): Originates in the advice often given to medical students, "when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras".
(referee): In reference to the black and white striped shirts they wear.

“People change countries for all kinds of reasons,” Ross tells me. “But at least one of them was that she had this light-skinned, mixed-race child who had already been called a zebra at school.”

2021 April 10, Alex Clark, “‘I’m 51, I can say what I want’: Leone Ross has overcome her fears”, in The Guardian:

(vulgar, derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) A biracial person, specifically one born to a Sub-Saharan African person and a white person.


banana

banana (countable and uncountable, plural bananas)

Borrowed from Portuguese banana or Spanish banana, derived from a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Guinea region. Specific derivation is unclear. Possible ancestor or cognate languages include Wolof banaana, Eastern Maninkakan banana, and Vai ꕒꘌꕯ (ɓaana) or ꕒꕌꕯ (ɓaana). However, Ay Baati Wolof (Munro & Gaye, 1997) posits that Wolof banaana is itself derived from Portuguese banana.
The racial slur derives from the notion that they are "Yellow (East-Asian) on the outside, White (Westernized) on the inside".

banánový (corresponding to English attributive use)

(corresponding to English attributive use) banánový

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of East or Southeast Asian descent, considered to be overly assimilated and subservient to white authority.


ivory

ivory (countable and uncountable, plural ivories)

→ Pohnpeian: aipori

From Middle English yvory, ivorie, from Anglo-Norman ivurie, from Latin eboreus (“in or of ivory”) adjective of ebur (“ivory”) (genitive eboris), from Demotic yb (“ivory, Elephantine”) (compare Coptic ⲓⲏⲃ (iēb, “Elephantine”)), from Egyptian ꜣbw (“elephant, ivory, Elephantine”). Displaced native Old English elpendbān (literally “elephant bone”).


yellow

en-adj

yellow (comparative yellower or more yellow, superlative yellowest or most yellow)

yellower (comparative)
more yellow (comparative)
yellowest (superlative)
most yellow (superlative)

From Middle English yelwe, yelou, from Old English ġeolwe, oblique form of Old English ġeolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wos, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“gleam, yellow”).
Compare Welsh gwelw (“pale”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”), Irish geal (“white, bright”), Italian giallo (“yellow”) Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “light green”), Persian زرد (zard, “yellow”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellow”), Russian жёлтый (žóltyj, “yellow”), Russian зелёный (zeljónyj, “green”). Cognate with German gelb (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”).
The verb is from Old English ġeolwian, from the adjective.

cog

They were all tall and all handsome, though they varied in their degree of darkness of skin, some being as dark as Mahomed, and some as yellow as a Chinese.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

(chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, of the skin) Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.

Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.

1913, Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu:

The two youths, the brown and the yellow, faced each other at the cross-roads, under a dim street-lamp.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 516:

(chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).


wood

en-noun

wood (countable and uncountable, plural woods)

Sranan Tongo: udu

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English wode, from Old English wudu, widu (“wood, forest, grove; tree; timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate”).
Cognate with Dutch wede (“wood, twig”), Middle High German wite (“wood”), Danish ved (“wood”), Swedish ved (“firewood”), Icelandic viður (“wood”). Further cognates include Irish fiodh (“a wood, tree”), Irish fid (“tree”) and Welsh gwŷdd (“trees”); all from Proto-Celtic *widus (“wood”). Unrelated to Dutch woud (“forest”), German Wald (“forest”) (see English wold).

der

[…] White has nothing but a lot of frozen wood on the board while Black operates on the Q-side.

1971, Chess Life & Review, volume 26, page 309:

(chess, uncountable, slang) Chess pieces.


rice

en-noun

rice (countable and uncountable, plural rices)

→ Bislama: raes

→ Tok Pisin: rais

From Middle English rys, from Old French ris, from Old Italian riso, risi, from Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza), from an Eastern Iranian language related to Middle Persian blnc (*brinǰ), Northern Kurdish riz (beyond Euphrates) and Zazaki riz. Theorized to come to Iranian languages from Sanskrit व्रीहि (vrīhi).
Prior to Sanskrit, it is speculated to be possibly a borrowing from a Dravidian language (compare Proto-Dravidian *wariñci (“rice”)), or from Austroasiatic languages further east.
Alternatively Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza) is said to be from Hebrew אורז (órez), from South Arabian areez ultimately from Old Tamil 𑀅𑀭𑀺𑀘𑀺 (arici).
Doublet of arroz.

(uncountable, slang, ethnic slur, humorous) The types of automobile modifications characteristic of a rice burner.


good

Coined in reference to the phrase "the only good nigger is a dead nigger", a popular saying among white supremacists.

Another evil nigger made good. I love a good news story.

2008 October 17, Anthony X (Janet Arvizo is a disgusting liar, Tom Sneddon is a disgusting racist http://asb-comm-logic.com, “TNB: 36-year-old African American shot to death”, in alt.true-crime (Usenet):

Sow Sheeboon Savannah Jeanne Walker of Louisville, KY was made good in a shooting at cRap show called 'A Boogie With The Hoodie' Saturday night at the Tim Faulkner Art Gallery. 5 other niggers were shot and are expected to survive. No suspooks have been captured.

2017 March 21, Rick Mathers, “6 Shitskin Boogs Shot At 'A Boogie With The Hoodie' Concert”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

The usual nigger nonsense from da fambly. He beez a good daddy to his keeids (I wonder how many more keeids this useless nigger has that the media didn't tell us about.) He wuz juss mindin' his own bidness when da popo got in da way. He din do nuffins. The BLM niggers and their lovers will be chimping out for sure. LEO's already have a tough job as it is, dealing with niggers has to be the worst part of the job. I'm glad that coon was made good.

2017 November 7, Casa de los peregrinos, “Groid rage motorist chimps out on motorist”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

Bolsheviks have got to be in heat over this, a nigger with well over 40 arrests including violent assault is properly made good for threatening people on the subway, will the law abiding law defending hero be thrown under the bus to appease blacks [again]?

2023 May 4, JeSSe, “White US Marine kills black felon in self defense - BLM/antifa threaten riots if he is not arrested and found guilty”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):

(Internet slang, offensive, ethnic slur) Of a black person, dead or killed.


egg

egg (countable and uncountable, plural eggs)

→⇒ German: not the yellow from the egg

Jamaican Creole: eg

Sranan Tongo: eksi

The noun is derived from Middle English eg, egg, egge (“egg of a domestic or wild fowl; egg of a snake”) [and other forms] (originally Northern England and Northeast Midlands), from Old Norse egg (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajją (“egg”) (by Holtzmann’s law), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), probably from *h₂éwis (“bird”), from *h₂ew- (“to clothe oneself, dress; to be dressed”) (in the sense of an animal clothed in feathers). Doublet of huevo, oeuf, and ovum.
The native English ey [and other forms] (plural eyren) (obsolete), from Old English ǣġ, is also derived from Proto-Germanic *ajją. It survived into at least c. 16th century before being fully displaced by egg.
The verb is derived from the noun.

wôwan

approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development

ou

thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg

egg

person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, or who has not yet come out as transgender or is in the early stages of transitioning; one’s lack of awareness that one is transgender

kill the goose that lays the golden eggs

there's more than one way to cook an egg

there's more than one way to crack an egg

(derogatory, ethnic slur, rare) A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia.


boot

Solombala English: бучь (bučʹ)

→ Russian: бутса (butsa)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: бу́це

Latin script: búce

→ Swahili: buti

From Middle English boote, bote (“shoe”), from Old French bote (“a high, thick shoe”). Of obscure origin, but probably related to Old French bot (“club-foot”), bot (“fat, short, blunt”), from Old Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz, *butaz (“cut off, short, numb, blunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewt-, *bʰewd- (“to strike, push, shock”); if so, a doublet of butt. Compare Old Norse butt (“stump”), Low German butt (“blunt, plump”), Old English bytt (“small piece of land”), buttuc (“end”). More at buttock and debut.

cog

couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel

My Dad has taught me that in England some foolish man may call me sambo, darkie, boot or munt or nigger, even.

1964 [1957], Colin MacInnes, City of Spades, London: Penguin Books, page 22:


camel

→ Coeur d'Alene: keemel

→ Eastern Arrernte: kamule

→ Tsonga: kamela

From Middle English camel, through Old English camel and Old Northern French camel (Old French chamel, modern French chameau), from Latin camēlus, from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos), from a Semitic source, ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal-; compare Arabic جَمَل (jamal), Hebrew גמל (gamál), Aramaic ܓܡܠܐ (gamlā), Coptic ϭⲁⲙⲟⲩⲗ (camoul). As a marine device, from Dutch. As an ethnic slur, short for camelfucker, camel jockey, etc.

a camel is a horse designed by a committee

it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God

(ethnic slur) A person of Middle Eastern origin.


Dutchwoman

(South Africa, derogatory, ethnic slur) A female white Afrikaner.


munt

Probably derived from Northern Ndebele umuntu, with stress on the first syllable, which is uncommon for Nguni languages.

Munt was a derogatory term used by the [Rhodesian] security forces to refer to blacks.

2006, Geoffrey Nyarota, Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman, Zebra Press, page 63:

(Rhodesia, slang, originally military, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person, usually a man.


默

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mlɯːɡ): phonetic 黑 (OC *hmlɯːɡ) + semantic 犬 (“dog”)

Han compound

(Internet slang, offensive, ethnic slur) (from 黑 (“black, negro”) + 犬 (quǎn, “dog”)) nigger


vodka

en-noun

vodka (countable and uncountable, plural vodkas)

→ Cebuano: bodka

→ Welsh: fodca

From Russian во́дка (vódka), from вода́ (vodá, “water”) + -ка (-ka, “-let: forming diminutives”). The archaic Russian name for vodka was хле́бное вино́ (xlébnoje vinó, “grain wine”); V. Pokhlyobkin's research suggests the present name derived from expressions concerning the dilution of the initial pure distilled spirit such as "vodka of grain wine".
Cognates include Sanskrit उदक (udaka), Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr) → English hydro-, English whisky and English water.

(countable, military slang, ethnic slur) A Russian.


bagel

→ Chinese: 貝果／贝果 (bèiguǒ)

→ Dutch: bagel

→ Finnish: bagel

→ French: bagel

→ German: Bagel

→ Greek: μπέιγκελ (béigkel)

→ Hijazi Arabic: بيقل (bēgil, bēgal)

→ Indonesian: bagel

→ Italian: bagel

→ Japanese: ベーグル (bēguru)

→ Korean: 베이글 (beigeul)

→ Persian: بیگل (beygel)

→ Portuguese: bagel

→ Russian: бейгл (bejgl)

→ Spanish: bagel

→ Thai: เบเกิล (bee-gə̂l)

→ Ukrainian: бейґл (bejgl)

Borrowed from Yiddish בייגל (beygl), ultimately from a diminutive of Middle High German bouc, boug- (“ring, bracelet”), from Old High German boug (“ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *baug, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring”).
Compare obsolete English bee, Old English bēag, Old Frisian bāg, Old Saxon bōg, Middle Low German bōg, Old Norse baugr. Also compare dialectal Austrian German Beugel, Beigel. See also beag.

(slang, ethnic slur, South Africa) An overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish man.


spade

Probably from Italian spade, plural of spada (“the ace of spades”, literally “sword, spade”), from earlier *spata, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπᾰ́θη (spáthē). Cognate with Etymology 1. So called for the shape, though what the shape was exactly meant to represent has been debated.

And as for a divorce, I know plenty spades right here in Harlem get married any time they want to.

1929, Wallace Thurman, The Blacker the Berry, New York: Collier Books, published 1970, →ISBN, page 161:

Example: Max was in a hospital in New York and "the night nurse was a groovy spade, and in the afternoon for therapy there was a chick from Israel who was interesting, but there was nothing much to do in the morning, so I left".

1968, Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:

It had even gotten to the point that Negroes were no longer in the hip scene, not even as totem figures. It was unbelievable. Spades, the very soul figures of Hip, of jazz, of the hip vocabulary itself, man and like dig and baby and scarf and split and later and so fine, of civil rights and graduating from Reed College and living on North Beach, down Mason, and balling spade cats—all that good elaborate petting and patting and pouring soul all over the spades—all over, finished, incredibly.

1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 9:

(offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.


negro

(offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar) a person of African descent; a black person


negro

eo-head

negro (accusative singular negron, plural negroj, accusative plural negrojn)

negron (accusative singular)
negroj (plural)
negrojn (accusative plural)

“Ses centojn da negroj mi ĉe Senegal
Akiris je prezo profita,
Malmola viando, simila al ŝton’,
La membroj — el ŝtalo forĝita.”

1897 June, A. Kofman, “El Heine: La sklavoŝipo”, in Lingvo Internacia, volume 2, numbers 6-7, page 89:

“600 negros at Senegal I acquired at a profitable price, hard meat, like stone, the members—from steel forged.”


negro

From Latin nigrum. The offensive senses derive from the anglophone usage of Spanish negro.

(now offensive, ethnic slur, now vulgar) nigger


negro

tl-noun

negro (feminine negra, Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒᜄ᜔ᜇᜓ)

Borrowed from Spanish negro, from Latin nigrum.

(colloquial, usually derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) one with dark pigmentation of the skin, such as those of African descent with sub-Saharan origin


hamburger

pl-noun

hamburger m animal (related adjective hamburgerowy)

hamburgerowy (adjective)
hamburger (nominative singular)
hamburgery (nominative plural)
hamburgera (genitive singular)
hamburgerów (genitive plural)
hamburgerowi (dative singular)
hamburgerom (dative plural)
hamburger (accusative singular)
hamburgera (accusative singular)
hamburgery (accusative plural)
hamburgerem (instrumental singular)
hamburgerami (instrumental plural)
hamburgerze (locative singular)
hamburgerach (locative plural)
hamburgerze (singular vocative)
hamburgery (plural vocative)

Borrowed from American English hamburger.

bor+

(derogatory, ethnic slur) burger (American person)


鬼佬

→ English: gweilo, gwailo, kwailo

/ku̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ku̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ laʊ̯ɻʷ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/kʷɐi̯³⁵ lou̯³⁵/

/kui³³⁻³⁵ l̃o³³/

/ku̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/ku̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ laʊ̯ɻʷ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/kʷɐi̯³⁵ lou̯³⁵/

/kui³³⁻³⁵ l̃o³³/

Originally Cantonese. From the supposed resemblance of Portuguese and other European skin tones to ghosts.

(chiefly Cantonese, Eastern Min, colloquial, derogatory, sometimes offensive, ethnic slur) gweilo; "foreign devil"; Caucasian; whitey

Terms that include 鬼 and/or 番 are potentially derogatory.


Pepsi

→ French: pepsi

→ Hindi: पेप्सी (pepsī)

→ Mauritian Creole: pepsi

→ Polish: pepsi

→ Portuguese: Pepsi, pepsi

→ Serbo-Croatian: Pepsi, pepsi

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Pepsi.wav

Originally short for Pepsi-Cola, coined in 1898 as a renaming of the brand from "Brad's Drink", in order to imply that the fizzy drink could cure dyspepsia. While some have suggested Pepsi is short for the digestive enzyme pepsin, sometimes with the assumption that pepsin was used as an ingredient in Pepsi, this is a folk etymology, as there is no official confirmation of it nor any evidence for a link between the enzyme and the beverage.
Nonetheless, both the words pepsin and dyspepsia ultimately derive from Ancient Greek πέψις (pépsis), which means “cooking, fermentation or digestion”. (Compare Italian pepsi, from the same source.)
(person from Quebec): In reference to their supposed love of junk food.

[…] and to maintain a relatively superior, paternalistic position from which French Canadians are for the most part regarded as 'peasoups' or 'Pepsis,' as fellow citizens requiring benevolent supervision […]

1993, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, volume 20, page 276:

(slang, ethnic slur) A person from Quebec, Canada.


Bangla

(Singapore, Malaysia, British, offensive, ethnic slur) A Bangladeshi.


monkey

en-noun

monkey (plural monkeys or (obsolete) monkies)

monkeys (plural)
monkies (obsolete plural)

→ Chukchi: маӈкы (maṇky)

→ Coeur d'Alene: moonki

→ Irish: moncaí

→ Navajo: mágí

→ Scottish Gaelic: muncaidh

→ Tumbuka: munkhwele

→ Welsh: mwnci

Uncertain. May be derived from monk + -ey (diminutive suffix), or borrowed from Middle Low German Moneke, the name of the son of Martin the Ape in Reynard the Fox (which may represent an unattested colloquial Middle Low German *moneke, *moneken), itself of uncertain origin. Possibly derived from a Romance term represented by Late Middle French monne (whence Modern French mone (“monkey”)) or earlier Old French monnekin (“monkey”), originally Monnekin, the name of a monkey in Li Dis d'Entendement. Compare also Old French and Middle French monin (“monkey”). The French terms may have been borrowed from Italian monna (“monkey”), from Old Spanish mona (“female monkey”), itself a shortening of mamona, variant of maimón, from Arabic مَيْمُون (maymūn, “baboon”)). However, Old French monnekin may alternatively be unrelated to the other terms, instead being a borrowing of Early Middle Dutch mannekin (a diminutive of a personal name or surname; hence, nickname, literally “miniature man”).

gl

whence Modern French <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">mone</i> (“monkey”)

der

cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey

you can take the monkey out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the monkey

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A black person.


neus

nl-noun

neus m or f (plural neuzen, diminutive neusje n)

neuzen (plural)
neusje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: neus

Javindo: nees

Negerhollands: naes, nees, nes

From Middle Dutch nose, nuese, from Old Dutch *nosa, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu.

In het door de rechercheur opgemaakte verbaal staat volgens het CIDI: „X (rode breedbekkikker) arriveert tezamen met een andere neus bij perceel 222 en praten wat.”

1994 February 2, “CIDI eist straf voor rechercheur”, in NRC Handelsblad, page 3:

(ethnic slur, highly offensive) Jew, kike


hout

(Rhodesia, slang, ethnic slur) A black African.


ook

en-verb

ook (third-person singular simple present ooks, present participle ooking, simple past and past participle ooked)

ooks (present singular third-person)
ooking (participle present)
ooked (participle past)
ooked (past)

Imitative of the cry of an ape or monkey.

onomatopoeic

Imitative

Starts ooking and eeking About Slavery, Racism, Hair Salons, etc!

2012 August 19, Trending Now, “Huge Feral Nigger Sheboon Chimps Out at Gas Station”, in aus.politics (Usenet):

On Saturday, April 27, 2013 11:40:40 PM UTC+10, nigger brndy ooked:
> You all have AIDS, cock suckers.

2013 April 27, farkya...@live.com, “Im the only normal person on here”, in alt.music.michael-jackson (Usenet):

Weird spectacle, to be expected of simians.
The grieving mudda is wearing dark sunglasses even though it is night
and appears highly medicated, she ooks and eeks and you can tell she is
in her glory in front of the cameras.

2014 November 26, Jesse, “'Burn this b---- down!'”, in alt.france (Usenet):

Meanwhile, the first nigger interviewed on the scene said she saw
the whole thing. She ooked that the "boy" dint do nuffins" .

2015 May 4, Debby teh Dikeman, “Re: NIGGER LOGIC REVISITED”, in alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk (Usenet):

WASHINGTON -- A California coongressboon ooked today that it would be
"preparing the nigger resistance" instead of apetending human
President-elect Trump's inauguration.
Rep. Barbara Lee (D/Nigger-Calif.) ooked its chimpout in a statement:
"I will not be celebrating or honoring an incoming president who rode
racism, sexism, xenophobia and bigotry to the White House."

2017 January 16, Rick Mathers, “Sow in Coongress will be preparing for chimpout instead of attending inaguration”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

Schenee started getting into chimpouts with its husboon Freddie, and at
one point ooked to it: 'The only thing you do is wipe my ass and wash
me up'.

2018 April 11, Dindu Nuffin, “Morbidly obese sheboon felt like it was "drowning in her own fat"”, in alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk (Usenet):

Ugly disgusting jungle chimp go back to the mudaland Ápefrica u came from u ooking eeking nigger ape piece of shit

2018 June 3, asgo...@gmail.com, “Re: 10 Reasons Why I Hate NIGGERS”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

Castle Hill, Bronx … 51-year-old C&R nigger Gary Mallette is wanted for
attempted muhdik on an 83-year-old female in her apartment. The nigger
posed as a repair-nig and ooked it was going to fix a leak.

2019 March 30, Robert Wolfe, “Catch and release (80 times) nigger assaults an 83 year old woman”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

(slang, ethnic slur, offensive) Of a black person: to speak gibberish or nonsense.


frog

From frog legs, stereotypical food of the French. Compare French rosbif (“English person”), from roast beef, corresponding term for the English, likewise based on stereotypical food; and Kraut for Germans.

(Canada, offensive) A French-speaking person from Quebec.


chopstick

Apparently a compound of chop + stick, but the sense of the first element is not clear. The eating utensil sense (attested since 1637) is presumably a transfer of sense from the earlier fishing tackle sense (attested from 1615), based on physical resemblance.
The common derivation from Chinese Pidgin English chop(-chop) (“quick”), a supposed calque from Chinese 筷子 (kuàizi, “chopstick”), derived from 快 (kuài, “quick”), is chronologically impossible as Chinese Pidgin English did not come into existence until the 18th century.

der

When was in Hampshire the other day, a chop-stick, who came to my lodging to talk to me about the mode of harvesting and preserving the corn, and who soon diverged into a talk about the Reform Bill, said, "And this cholera morbus, sir, don't you think it's a sort of a shoshoy to frighten us out of the Reform?"

1832 April 11, The Launceston Advertiser, Tasmania, page 119, column 2:

Every horse you possess having no action, or which a day's journey would knock up, (to be found in lots far more numerous than the Chinamen as yet,) ought to be turned out to fatten; when plump, take the animal into the nearest station, occupied by these chopsticks.

1852 March 13, The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, NSW, page 4, column 3:

"How cool is that, Chong? Wolverine is in the house." "Wolver this, you chopstick."

2013, Angelina Martinez, Falling In Love, Bloomington: Author House, page 50:


sauerkraut

en-noun

sauerkraut (countable and uncountable, plural sauerkrauts)

/ˈsaʊɚˌkɹʌʊt/

Borrowed into English around 1600 from German Sauerkraut, from sauer (“sour, acidic, spoiled”) + Kraut (“herb; cabbage”). Doublet of choucroute.

(countable, obsolete, ethnic slur, offensive, slang) A German person.


polaco

es-noun

polaco m (plural polacos, feminine polaca, feminine plural polacas)

polacos (plural)
polaca (feminine)
polacas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Polish Polak.
For the etymology of the Catalan sense, see the Wikipedia article Polaco (slur).

Polaco, si puedes leer esto, estás demasiado cerca

2019, Pau Pèrrim, chapter 3, in Terra Cremada (overall work in Catalan), →ISBN:

Polaco, if you can read this, you're too close

(Spain, offensive) Catalan (person from Catalonia)


kebab

From Arabic كَبَاب (kabāb), partly through Urdu, Persian and Turkish kebap. Doublet of cevapi. See the Arabic entry for more.

(slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A Muslim, usually of southern European, Middle Eastern, or North African descent.


kebab

kebab (nominative singular)
kebaby (nominative plural)
kebaba (genitive singular)
kebabów (genitive plural)
kebabowi (dative singular)
kebabom (dative plural)
kebaba (accusative singular)
kebabów (accusative plural)
kebabem (instrumental singular)
kebabami (instrumental plural)
kebabie (locative singular)
kebabach (locative plural)
kebabie (singular vocative)
kebaby (plural vocative)

(derogatory, ethnic slur) Muslim person, especially of Turkish descent


gook

First attested in the 1890s in reference to Filipinos (in particular, it is defined in an 1893 citation in Slang and Its Analogues as referring to prostitutes who followed army camps; it is defined similarly in a 1914 work). The word was used of Nicaraguans during the US military occupation there in the 1910s, and Haitians during the US invasion there, when Herbert Seligman noted in 1920 that "The Haitians … are nicknamed 'Gooks'".
Other early uses in the 1920 and 30s still refer to people from the Philippines (a 1921 work refers to the Philippines as "Gook Land"), and the term seems to be connected to goo-goo (“a Philippine person”), for which a variety of etymologies have been proposed; see that entry for more. (A later folk etymology suggests that during the Korean War, North Korean soldiers would shout Korean 美國 (Miguk, “America”) at Americans, who interpreted it as "me gook", as if identifying themselves as "gooks"; this ignores the many earlier examples of the word outside Korea.) Gook was used of Pacific Islanders by World War II, and Koreans and Vietnamese people by the time of the 1950s and 60s US military interventions there, which cemented the shift to meaning "Asian".

A few days later he had a 'damned good party' at NORMASH, drinking brandy, and he then 'beat up a Gook [Korean] village.' This resulted in an 'awful hangover all day', […] Later, he walked back to his unit, alone at three o'clock in the morning, having 'swiped a Gook torch.'

2002, Colin Baker, Wild Goose: The Life and Death of Hugh Van Oppen, pages 59–60:

(slang, vulgar, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of (South) East Asian descent; originally a native of the Philippines, but now especially:

(US, derogatory) A Korean person (especially during the Korean War).

Of course, I've got so many confirmed kills I lost count. Nobody believes me because the gooks drag off their dead.

1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 57:

(US, derogatory) A Vietnamese insurgent in the Vietnam War, particularly a member of the Vietcong.


Jim Crow

/ˌdʒɪm ˈkɹoʊ/

From the minstrel show song Jump Jim Crow, written in 1828 by Thomas D. Rice, the originator of blackface performance.

(obsolete, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A Black man.


kike

Thought to be from Yiddish קײַקל (kaykl, “circle”). In the early 20th century, non-English-speaking Jews that immigrated to the United States would sign papers with a circle as opposed to a more common X. The latter symbol was associated by these Jews with the Christian cross, a symbol that represented to them millennia of persecution. This is the dominant etymological theory, but there are others, in particular a contraction from the documented phrase ‘Ikey-Kikey’, an American-origin reduplication of Ikey, British-English pejorative for Jews after the prevalence of the name Isaac.

"Now you quit kidding me! What's the nice little name?" "Oh, it ain't so darn nice. I guess it's kind of kike. But my folks ain't kikes. My papa's papa was a nobleman in Poland, and there was a gentleman in here one day, he was kind of a count or something--"

(US, offensive, ethnic slur, religious slur) A Jew.


Cina

Through Malay Cina, from a phonetic transcription of Sanskrit चीन (Cīna), itself likely deriving from Old Chinese 秦 (*zin, “State of Qin, Qin dynasty”). Compare Latin Sinae, Ancient Greek Θῖνα (Thîna), Arabic اَلصِّين (aṣ-ṣīn), Chinese 支那 (Zhīnà), Chinese 震旦 (Zhèndàn), Japanese 支那 (shina) and English China.

cog

Arabic اَلصِّين (aṣ-ṣīn)

(derogatory, ethnic slur) Chink, Chinaman (Chinese person)


pasty

en-adj

pasty (comparative pastier, superlative pastiest)

pastier (comparative)
pastiest (superlative)

He smoothed his tailored suit and red tie. "Boy, does it look like I ain't rich now? My pockets are already full of paper! Why the fuck would I want to risk doing business with some pasty cracker? For all I know, you a cop!"

2008, John Lacombe, Winter Games, page 184:

“So, snow bunny, what should black women do? How do we...oh, how do I say this... cure our brothas of this widespread, pasty disease?” I didn't reply. Again, I tried to step away. Again, she grabbed my arm.

2010, James W. Lewis, Sellout, page 107:

(slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) Whiteskinned.


albo

(US, offensive, ethnic slur) An Albanian.


negress

From French négresse, from nègre. Equivalent to Negro + -ess.

Directly they were trotted off in their little pea-green and gilt carriage, guardian negress and all, I went into the shop, about which I had all this time been loafingly prowling, and called, clapping my hands, for some violet sherbet, […]

1860, Walter Thornbury, Turkish Life and Character, volume 1, page 137:

1995, A. J. Verdelle, The Good Negress (book title)

(dated, literary, now offensive and an ethnic slur) A black female.


poro

head

poro (genitive poro, partitive poro or porot)

poro (genitive)
poro (partitive)
porot (partitive)
poro (nominative singular)
porod (nominative plural)
poro (accusative nominative singular)
porod (accusative nominative plural)
poro (accusative genitive singular)
porod (accusative genitive plural)
poro (genitive singular)
porode (genitive plural)
poro (partitive singular)
porosid (partitive plural)
porro (illative singular)
porosse (illative singular)
porodesse (illative plural)
poros (inessive singular)
porodes (inessive plural)
porost (elative singular)
porodest (elative plural)
porole (allative singular)
porodele (allative plural)
porol (adessive singular)
porodel (adessive plural)
porolt (ablative singular)
porodelt (ablative plural)
poroks (singular translative)
porodeks (plural translative)
poroni (singular terminative)
porodeni (plural terminative)
porona (essive singular)
porodena (essive plural)
porota (abessive singular)
porodeta (abessive plural)
poroga (comitative singular)
porodega (comitative plural)
poro (nominative singular)
porod (nominative plural)
poro (accusative nominative singular)
porod (accusative nominative plural)
poro (accusative genitive singular)
porod (accusative genitive plural)
poro (genitive singular)
porode (genitive plural)
porot (partitive singular)
porosid (partitive plural)
porro (illative singular)
porosse (illative singular)
porodesse (illative plural)
poros (inessive singular)
porodes (inessive plural)
porost (elative singular)
porodest (elative plural)
porole (allative singular)
porodele (allative plural)
porol (adessive singular)
porodel (adessive plural)
porolt (ablative singular)
porodelt (ablative plural)
poroks (singular translative)
porodeks (plural translative)
poroni (singular terminative)
porodeni (plural terminative)
porona (essive singular)
porodena (essive plural)
porota (abessive singular)
porodeta (abessive plural)
poroga (comitative singular)
porodega (comitative plural)

Borrowed from Finnish poro by Estonian writer, folklorist, and translator August Annist in 1926.


mac

(UK, US, Canada, Australia, slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Scottish descent, used in driving culture to denigrate someone for poor/slow/amateurish driving responses, a reference to the frugality of Scottish people.


Jap

Shortened from Japanese, attested as a noun since 1872, and adjectivally since 1878. Compare Nip (shortened from Nippon).

He petered out under Pitty's savage look: Do you speak Jap? Do you understand the world from inside those bastards' slanty-eyed little head-lopping poem-writing minds?

2007, Les A. Murray, Fredy Neptune, page 239:

He said it in Japanese, which surprised the boy and stunned Cullen.
“You speak Jap?” asked Cullen.
“Looks like it, doesn't it?”

(offensive, slang, ethnic slur) The Japanese language.


Jap

Among our Japs on board are two returning from Italy, where they have been with silk-worms' eggs, on cards, to sell. This has become a great speculation, and the Japs are going into it with zeal. The Japs almost always—always when they can—take cabin passages ; the Chinese seldom, or never.

1872, James Brooks, A Seven Months' Run, Up, Down, Around the World:

We had to kill 110,000 Japanese before we took Okinawa, and when the officers of the Japanese are killed- or defeated- they commit suicide. They cost us 12,000 men and they had to kill 110,000 Japs. And it's a terrible thing- don't know what you're gonna do with any crazy outfit like that except all you can do is to destroy them, and that's too bad.

1964, Harry S. Truman, 1:38 from the start, in MP2002-288 Former President Truman Discusses the Battle of Okinawa, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:

American officers have observed how Chinese troops stationed at American air bases have frequently refused to shoot at Japanese raiding planes. Asked by an American officer for the reason for this behavior, a Chinese officer at Lao-ho-k’ou air base in Hupeh answered (November 1944): “Well you see, if we shot down a Jap plane, the Japs would be angry and would take revenge and return and bomb the city and do a lot of damage.”

1968, Lyman P. Van Slyke, editor, The Chinese Communist Movement: A Report of the United States War Department, July 1945, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 90:

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, US) A Japanese person.


Jap

A soldier might grab his rifle and batter his way to the heart of some Jap position. Back home they gave him all sorts of medals but his companions dismissed him as the poor bastard who finally went Asiatic.

1951, James Albert Michener, The Voice of Asia, page 6:

(derogatory, ethnic slur) Japanese; of or pertaining to Japan or its people.


Jap

(derogatory, ethnic slur, usually offensive, unofficial spelling) a Jap, a Japanese person


abo

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Oxford University Press
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(Australia, offensive, ethnic slur, slang) An Aboriginal person.


parch

pl-noun

parch m pers (female equivalent parchulka)

parchulka (feminine)
parch (nominative singular)
parchy (nominative plural)
parcha (genitive singular)
parchów (genitive plural)
parchowi (dative singular)
parchom (dative plural)
parcha (accusative singular)
parchów (accusative plural)
parchem (instrumental singular)
parchami (instrumental plural)
parchu (locative singular)
parchach (locative plural)
parchu (singular vocative)
parchy (plural vocative)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pь̑rxъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *piršas, from Proto-Indo-European *pŕ̥s-o-s, from *pers-.

(dated or dialectal, Far Masovian, derogatory, ethnic slur, religious slur, Judaism) kike, Yid (Jewish person)


blacky

[I]t was agreed that two double beds were in requisition: — one for the host and hostess — and the other for the loving nigger and his wife, who it plainly appeared, had no inclination to be separated. Our hope was in a double bed — the one which the blacky and his fairer half looked at with a longing eye — but out of which he had no idea of turning: […]

1836, Pedestres (pseud.), Sir Clavileno Woodenpeg (knight of Snowdon, pseud.), A pedestrian tour of thirteen hundred and forty-seven miles through Wales and England (page 269)

Apropos of Van Balen, an artist who painted me lately had painted a blackamoor praying; and not filling his canvas, stuffed in his little girl aside of a blacky gaping at him unmeaningly; and then did not know what to call it.

1942, Eva Beatrice Dykes, The Negro in English Romantic Thought, page 91:

(informal, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.


Jacky

(Australia, ethnic slur, offensive) An Aboriginal.


Paki

Either a clipping of Pakistani or a back-formation from Pakistan. Doublet of Pak.

Their byword is Aggro (Aggravation) and their crucial enemies are hippies, homosexuals and Pakis (Pakistanis or Indians).

1970 March 29, Nik Cohn, “England's New Teen Style Is Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Paragraph 2, DPP v Collins ([2006] 1 WLR 2223)
In these telephone calls and recorded messages the respondent, who held strong views on immigration and asylum policy and the provision of public support to immigrants and applicants for asylum, ranted and shouted and made reference to "Wogs", "Pakis", "Black bastards" and […] "Niggers".

(UK, Canada, by extension) Anyone whose origins are perceived to be from South Asia/the Indian subcontinent.


Paki

(British, Canada, derogatory, ethnic slur) Pakistani, or perceived to be Pakistani.


Paki

(ethnic slur) Paki (offensive term for a Pakistani)


chimp

(offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.


Kraut

From German Kraut (“cabbage”), alluding to the use of cabbage as an ingredient in German cuisine (namely sauerkraut). First use appears c. 1833-1837, but popularized during the First and Second World Wars.

Those Krauts can't hurt you anymore. The only ones left are dead or dying.

1991, Art Spiegelman, Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began, New York: Pantheon Books, page 112:

(ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory, slang) A German.


orc

→ Catalan: orc

→ Czech: ork

→ Danish: ork

→ Dutch: ork

→ Estonian: örk

→ Finnish: örkki

→ French: orc

→ Georgian: ორკი (orḳi)

→ Greek: ορκ (ork)

→ Hungarian: ork

→ Icelandic: orki

→ Japanese: オーク (ōku)

→ Korean: 오크 (okeu)

→ Latvian: orks

→ Lithuanian: orkas

→ Marathi: ऑर्क (ŏrka)

→ Norwegian: ork, orc

→ Polish: ork

→ Portuguese: orc

→ Romanian: orc

→ Russian: орк (ork)

→ Serbo-Croatian: ork / орк

→ Swedish: ork

→ Ukrainian: орк (ork)

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
J. R. R. Tolkien
orc

Probably from Italian orco (“man-eating giant”); later revived by J. R. R. Tolkien, partly after Old English orc, which he took to mean "demon". Both are from Latin Orcus (“the underworld; the god Pluto”). Doublet of ogre and Orcus.
Sense 2 is a semantic loan from Ukrainian орк (ork, “evil monstrous humanoid creature; orc”) or Russian орк (ork), both from the English word and possibly under the influence of Russian у́рка (úrka, “criminal”, prison slang). Popularized in English in 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

m+

(by extension, Internet slang, ethnic slur) A Russian person.


brownie

en-noun

brownie (countable and uncountable, plural brownies)

→ Belarusian: бра́ўні (bráŭni)

→ Chinese: 布朗尼 (bùlǎngní)

→ French: brownie

→ German: Brownie

→ Hungarian: brownie

→ Irish: donnóg (calque)

→ Italian: brownie

→ Japanese: ブラウニー (buraunī)

→ Lithuanian: braunis

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: brownie

→ Polish: brownie

→ Portuguese: brownie

→ Russian: бра́уни (bráuni)

→ Kazakh: брауни (brauni)

→ Spanish: brownie

→ Thai: บราวนี (bpraao-níi)

→ Turkish: brownie, browni, brovni

→ Welsh: browni

From brown + -ie (diminutive suffix). In folkloric sense, originally Scots.

(ethnic slur, offensive) A person with brown skin.


bogan

Unknown. First appeared in Australia in the 1980s. Possibly in reference to supposedly unsophisticated people from remote outback places such as the Bogan River or Bogan Gate (cf. dubbo from Dubbo).

(New Zealand, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Anglo-Celtic member of a lower socioeconomic group, stereotypically classified as wearing black jumpers or black concert T-shirts.

westy

Australia (esp. Sydney), NZ (esp. Auckland)


citron

From Latin citrus (“citron tree, thuja”), probably connected with Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros, “cedar, juniper”).

cog

(slang, offensive, ethnic slur) East Asian


scrap

en-noun

scrap (countable and uncountable, plural scraps)

From Middle English scrappe, from Old Norse skrap, from skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skreb-, *skrep- (“to engrave”).

(ethnic slur, offensive) A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.


ninja

Enter the Ninja
Eric Van Lustbader
Hokusai Manga
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
ninja

A romanized borrowing of Japanese 忍者 (ninja), popularized within Japanese by manga after World War II and in English by Eric Van Lustbader's 1980 novel The Ninja and the 1981 movie Enter the Ninja, of uncertain derivation but with an underlying sense of secret or hidden person.
The “Mongolian miner” sense arose from the supposed resemblance of the bowls used to wash ore with mercury to the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The Juggalo slang sense arose via influence from AAVE nigga.

(euphemistic, vulgar, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) nigger.


slope

slope (countable and uncountable, plural slopes)

(vulgar, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.


eek

en-verb

eek (third-person singular simple present eeks, present participle eeking, simple past and past participle eeked)

eeks (present singular third-person)
eeking (participle present)
eeked (participle past)
eeked (past)

onomatopoeic

Imitative

(slang, ethnic slur, offensive) Of a black person, to speak nonsense or gibberish.


hajji

Borrowed from Middle French hagi, from Ottoman Turkish حاجی (hacı), from Classical Persian حَاجِی (hājī).

(derogatory, slang, US, ethnic slur) A Muslim or Arab.


spic

Possibly imitative of a Hispanic pronunciation of speak. Usually considered a contraction of the earlier used spiggoty.

(US, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Latino; a person of Latin American descent.

“He’s a spic” he said. He was frantic with jealousy, he didn’t want to be hurt again.

1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night: A Romance … With the Author’s Final Revisions, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, →OCLC, book IV (Escape: 1925–1929), page 236:

(US, ethnic slur, originally) A person of Italian descent.


cracker

From crack + -er. From crack (verb), the sound made when one is broken. The hard "bread" and "biscuit" sense is first attested in 1739. The computing senses of cracker, crack, and cracking were promoted in the 1980s as an alternative to hacker, by programmers concerned about negative public associations of hack, hacking (“creative computer coding”). See Citations:cracker. Various theories exist regarding the term's application to poor white Southerners. One theory holds that it originated with disadvantaged corn and wheat farmers (corncrackers), who cracked their crops rather than taking them to the mill. Another theory asserts that it was applied due to Georgia and Florida settlers (Florida crackers) who cracked loud whips to drive herds of cattle, or, alternatively, from the whip cracking of plantation slave drivers. Yet another theory maintains that the term cracker was in use in Elizabethan times to describe braggarts (see crack (“to boast”)); a letter from 1766 supports this theory.

Brothers and the whiteys / Blacks and the crackers / Police and their backers / They're all political actors

1970, “(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go”, in Curtis, performed by Curtis Mayfield:

Check this shit: You got cracker farm boy Luke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy, blond hair, blue eyes. And then you got Darth Vader, the blackest brother in the galaxy, Nubian god!

1997, Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy, spoken by Hooper (Dwight Ewell):

“You know that old cracker beat them boys.”

2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 202:

(US, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person (slang).


white trash

→ Swedish: WT

A shortening, first attested in 1850, of poor white trash, which black slaves in the Southern United States were said to call white individuals who worked in servile positions (for example, as butlers).

This white trash can't pay for his own beer.

These lowlife characters are white trash.

Among these odd folk, who correspond exactly to the decadent element of “white trash” in the South, law and morals are non-existent; and their general mental status is probably below that of any other section of the native American people.

1919, H. P. Lovecraft, Beyond the Wall of Sleep:

“So, he is the father of Emmie Slattery’s baby,” thought Scarlett. “Oh, well. What else can you expect from a Yankee man and a white-trash girl?”

1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part I, page 71:

When Linda was two and living in a San Pedro dive with her white-trash parents, he was twelve and gaining clandestine access to wealthy homes in Bronxville and Scarsdale, New York, exorcising his nocturnal heart by delivering himself to the quiet muse of other people's dwellings, sometimes stealing, sometimes not. . . .

1987 [1984], James Ellroy, Because the Night, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 31:

Just some Portland white trash / You confronted your sorrow / Like there was no tomorrow / While the rest of the world only laughed

2017, “Tonya Harding”, performed by Sufjan Stevens:

(US, idiomatic, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A poorly educated white person or, collectively, white people of low social status and often regarded as lazy, irresponsible, unintelligent, etc.

白色垃圾

white person or people of low social status (pejorative)


ลาว

Uncertain. Compare Old Khmer lahv, lāhv, lāhva, Northern Thai ᩃᩣ᩠ᩅ (lāaw), Lao ລາວ (lāo), Lü ᦟᦱᧁ (laaw). Possibly related to Northern Thai ᩉᩖᩮᩢ᩵ᩣ (làw), ᩃᩮᩢᩣ (lāw), Tai Dón ꪹꪩꪱ, Thai ละว้า (lá-wáa), ลัวะ (lúa).

(ethnic slur, derogatory, offensive) being from a low social class; uncivilised; countrified

(ethnic slur, derogatory, offensive) unfashionable

(ethnic slur, derogatory, offensive) dull; unintelligent; slow of understanding

(ethnic slur, derogatory, offensive) gauche; awkward; lacking social graces


bong

(ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.


limey

In adjectival senses, by surface analysis, lime + -y.
In the sense of Englishman, reduced from the 19th century term lime-juicer (“British ship”), from the lime juice British ships carried to ward off scurvy.

Ya look like anything ’cept a tourist who’s come to lose his wad and they get a bad case of nose trouble. Take yaself. Anyone can see ya’re a Limey even before ya start talking.

1956, Ian Fleming, chapter 15, in Diamonds Are Forever:

(US, Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) An Englishman or other Briton, or a person of British descent; an English or British immigrant.


chug

Onomatopoeic, in imitation of a working steam engine. The racial slur sense derives from the stereotype of Native Americans chugging alcohol.

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Native American descent.


jig

Probably a clipping of jigaboo, of uncertain origin, perhaps an African/Bantu word. Alternatively, jigaboo may be derived from jig (“dance”).

“You got a new jig, huh?” The boy looked out at Jones through his swirls of oiled hair. “What happened to the last one? He die or something?”

a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN:

“…Lucky for me he wasn’t a jig, otherwise I couldn’t have done it.”
“Jig?”
“Nigger. Afro American.” His voice was heavy with sarcasm.

2011, Andrew Lithgow, Retribution, →ISBN, page 228:

(US, offensive, slang, dated, ethnic slur) A black person.


fader

Borrowed from German Vater. Doublet of fater.

(Chełmno-Dobrzyń, derogatory, ethnic slur) German person; Kraut


squaw

From Massachusett squàw (“woman”), from Proto-Algonquian *eθkwe·wa (“(young) woman”). Cognate with Abenaki -skwa (“female, wife”), Mohegan-Pequot sqá, Cree iskwew / ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ (iskeyw, “woman”), Ojibwe ikwe (“woman”). In the 1970s, some non-linguists began to claim that the word originally meant "vagina"; this has been discredited.
The first recorded version of the word was found in a book called Mourt’s Relation: A Journey of the Pilgrims at Plymouth written in 1622. The term was not used in a derogatory fashion but spoke of the “squa sachim or Massachusets Queen” in the September 20, 1621 journal entry.

der

(now offensive, ethnic slur) A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman.

en:Native American name controversy#Controversial terminology

индианка

a woman, wife; especially a Native American woman

mulher índia (especialmente norte americana)


macaco

pt-noun

macaco m (plural macacos, feminine macaca, feminine plural macacas)

macacos (plural)
macaca (feminine)
macacas (feminine plural)

→ Catalan: macaco

→ English: macaco

desctree

→ French: macaque
Haitian Creole: makak
→ Bulgarian: макак (makak)
→ English: macaque
→ German: Makake
→ Romanian: macac

→ Italian: macaco

→ Spanish: macaco

Unknown. Thought to have been borrowed from a Bantu language. Bantu maka, "cat", comes from -mañga (an old East African Bantu word for the sea-coast, often applied to any strange or foreign product). But it seems unlikely that the Bantu would have used such a word to denote familiar animals like apes and monkeys. However, none of the many Bantu words for apes and monkeys resembles "macaco". Other suggested derivations include:
* from Kongo makaku (“monkeys”)
* from a language of Madagascar (compare macaco, macauco, maucaco (“any of several lemurs”), perhaps related to maky);
* from Kari'na macaca (“simian”), though it may have been loaned into Galibi from a language of African slaves;
* from dialectal French macao (“cat; monkey; long-tailed monkey”), allegedly used in Normandy and Berry.
* from Spanish muchacho;
* from Macau + -aco.

der

(Brazil, offensive, ethnic slur) monkey (derogatory term for a black person)


Twinkie

The brand name is said to be a diminutive, twinkle + -ie (or otherwise modified), based on a billboard for "Twinkle Toe Shoes" in St. Louis, although there are also claims for solely one or the other. The meaning in reference to well-assimilated Asians is derived from the slur that they are "yellow on the outside, white on the inside".

(derogatory, ethnic slur) Synonym of banana: A person of East Asian descent considered to have overly assimilated and to be subservient to white authority, an East Asian race traitor.


Oreo

National Biscuit Company
Oreo
Oreo#Etymology
Wikipedia

Brand name of unknown origin, trademarked by National Biscuit Company on 14 March 1912. See the Etymology section of Wikipedia's Oreo article for various theories. In reference to well-assimilated black people, derived from the slur that they are "black on the outside, white on the inside".

She's a pure Oreo. You know, like the cookie, black outside and white inside.

1971, Iceberg Slim, The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, Holloway House:

(US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a black race traitor.

Uncle Tom

black person assimilated into white culture


укроп

ru-noun+

укро́п • (ukróp) m inan or m anim (genitive укро́па, nominative plural укро́пы, genitive plural укро́пов, feminine укро́пка, relational adjective укро́пный)

укро́п (canonical)
ukróp (romanization)
укро́па (genitive)
укро́пы (nominative plural)
укро́пов (genitive plural)
укро́пка (feminine)
укро́пный (adjective relational)
укро́п (nominative singular)
укро́пы (nominative plural)
укро́па (genitive singular)
укро́пов (genitive plural)
укро́пу (dative singular)
укро́пам (dative plural)
укро́па (accusative animate singular)
укро́пов (accusative animate plural)
укро́п (accusative inanimate singular)
укро́пы (accusative inanimate plural)
укро́пом (instrumental singular)
укро́пами (instrumental plural)
укро́пе (prepositional singular)
укро́пах (plural prepositional)
укро́пу (partitive singular)

desc

→ Chinese: 烏克蘿／乌克萝

→ Chinese: 烏克蘿／乌克萝

→ English: ukrop

→ Ingrian: ukrooppi

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ukropъ.
Sense 7 mocks the similarity of the word with the name Украи́на (Ukraína).

Ру́ки прочь от Донба́сса, укро́п!

(animate, derogatory, ethnic slur) a Ukrainian (member of a side of the war in Donbass since 2014)


Ivan

Ivan (nominative singular)
Ivanové (nominative plural)
Ivana (genitive singular)
Ivanů (genitive plural)
Ivanovi (dative singular)
Ivanu (dative singular)
Ivanům (dative plural)
Ivana (accusative singular)
Ivany (accusative plural)
Ivane (singular vocative)
Ivanové (plural vocative)
Ivanovi (locative singular)
Ivanu (locative singular)
Ivanech (locative plural)
Ivanem (instrumental singular)
Ivany (instrumental plural)

(derogatory, ethnic slur) Russian (person)


trailer trash

(US, idiomatic, slang, derogatory) A poorly-educated, and usually white individual(s) of low social status who stereotypically reside(s) in a trailer park.


pikey

Possibly from obsolete pike (“depart or travel”), or possibly from turnpike. The verb is derived from the stereotype that the Romani people or other travellers are thieves.

“They must be the pikeys who live up there. They're a nasty bunch. Shouldn't get mixed up with them.” “Well, we told them to fuck off, they didn't seem that nasty to me! What are pikeys anyway?” “Well, they're like vagabonds.”

2012, Pat Coppard, In Spite of Everything: a Life-story, →ISBN, page 15:

Gipsies and the pikey race generally were a class outside Lord Sandbar's previous experience, and he listened greedily.

(UK, Ireland, ethnic slur, offensive) An itinerant person, especially one of Romani or Irish Traveller heritage.


wapanese

Blend of white + Japanese under influence from wigger, ("white" + "nigger"), although sometimes parsed as wannabe + Japanese, popularized by the message board 4chan.

Now, I know some of you Wapanese (Caucasian Japan fanboys) might get your panties in a bunch, but it's my opinion. LIVE WITH IT.

2003 December 16, I. B. Blaqman [username], “I really hate the way Japanese media sensationalizes their so-called "superstars"”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet):

She wasn't the best, Wapanese.

2006 February 28, Blowhole911 [username], “Re: Arakawa”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet):

His making the greatest samurai legend in Japanese history a white guy in the middle of the closed country era pretty much sealed it that he's a Wapanese with a pen.

2007 November 5, WrestlingizReel [username], “Re: Too much Hiro in ancient Japan?”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

(derogatory, ethnic slur, dated) Synonym of weeaboo: a person from elsewhere, particularly an unsocial white male, considered overly infatuated with Japanese culture.


mud

en-noun

mud (countable and uncountable, plural muds)

From Middle English mud, mudde, mode, probably a borrowing from Middle Dutch mod, modde or Middle Low German mudde, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mud-, *mudra- (“mud”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mū-, *mew- (“moist”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Mudde (“mud”), Middle High German mot (“mud”), Swedish modd (“slush”). Compare also suffixed variants West Frisian modder (“mud”), Dutch modder (“mud”), German Low German Mudder (“mud”), German Moder (“moldiness, mildew, decay”), English mother (“vinegar-forming sediment in alcohol”), Danish mudder (“mud”).
Alternative etymology suggests the Proto-Germanic word is possibly borrowed from a Uralic language (compare e.g. Finnish muta (“mud”), Northern Sami mođđi (“mud”), from Proto-Uralic *muďa).

cog

throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick

That includes muds, spics, kikes and niggers.

How could they be so gullible to think peace and love could be achieved with the muds burning down our cities […]

2015, Christian Picciolini, Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead:

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.


Jerry

A clipped form of German popularized during the First World War.

Phipps went on: “One of our chaps, out on a reccy over the Bulgarian front, thought he saw something in the snow. Something fishy. He dropped down to have a dekko and nearly had kittens. What d'you think? Jerry's got a mass of stuff there—tanks, guns, lorries, every sort of heavy armament. All camouflaged. White.”

2011 [1965], Olivia Manning, Friends And Heroes (The Balkan Trilogy), Random House, →ISBN:

[…] chucking your towel on the sunbed and making sure Jerry doesn't get there first.

2012, Bill Leckie, Penthouse and Pavement:

(UK, US, ethnic slur, dated) A personification of the German people.


Jerry

But Robert had been cheeriness itself, had told them to buck up and think of England, reminding them that moaning wasn’t going to beat the Jerries.

2012, Margaret James, The Penny Bangle, Harpenden: Choc Lit, →ISBN, page 43:

(British, US, ethnic slur, dated) A German, particularly a male German.


mayo

en-noun

mayo (countable and uncountable, plural mayos)

(countable, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur, Internet slang) A white person.


Pali

Clipping of Palestinian, influenced by Paki.

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A Palestinian person.


Pali

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Palestinian


boogie

in front of the White House during the crisis over admission of James Meredith to the Univeristy of Mississippi, we were counterpicketed by five members of the American Nazi Party. One of them carried two placards: one saying "Who Needs Niggers?" and the other "Back to the Trees, Boogies!" Finally a passerby, incensed by the sight of the Stars-and-Stripes being carried alongside the Nazi Swastika, assaulted one of the Nazis

1966, Liberation: An Independent Monthly, Volumes 11-12, page 66:


niglet

From nig(ger) + -let, made to sound like piglet.

Coordinate term: niglette

(slang, US, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black child.


sulla

Borrowed from Punjabi ਸੁੱਲ (sulla), a mispronunciation of Punjabi ਮੁੱਲਾ (mullā, “mullah, Islamic religious leader”), derived from Classical Persian ملا (mullā), from Arabic مُلَّا (mullā).

der

(South Asia, religious slur, ethnic slur) A Muslim man; especially one from Pakistan.


shylock

From the character Shylock in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1600).

(offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Jewish descent.


Uncle Tom

Referring to the character in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

...their master... was no ad for anybody but the most arcane Black Power, he was an old prince of a witch doctor—insult him at your peril—but the other ten musicians with their trumpets and snares and assorted brass would prove no pull for Nixon on TV with any Black votes watching, for they were old and meek, naught but elderly Black Southern musicians, a veritable Ganges of Uncle Toms. They had disappeared with Tom Swift and Little Lord Fauntleroy.

1968, Norman Mailer, “Nixon in Miami”, in Harper's, §6:

Some blacks don't want to deal with the black cop because they see him as an Uncle Tom, a person who stands by while the white cop abuses and shows disrespect toward other blacks.

1985 April 1, Steven Leinen, quoting a police officer, Black Police, White Society, NYU Press:

One of the less entertaining components of the Ali act was the way he tried to "outblack" someone like Frazier, call him an Uncle Tom, an "honorary white," when in fact Frazier had grown up dirt poor in South Carolina.

2014 April 2, David Remnick, King of the World: Muhammed Ali and the Rise of an American Hero, Knopf Doubleday:

"You are an Uncle Tom, Scott. You're for Sessions. How does a black man turn on his own," Scott said, reading criticisms of himself on social media.

2017 February 8, Burgess Everett, “Tim Scott, the lone black GOP senator, rises to Sessions' defense”, in Politico:

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A black man who is servile towards white authority and accepting of white supremacy, a black race traitor.


coolie

→ Macanese: cúli

→ Romanian: culi

From Hindustani क़ुली / قلی (qulī, “hired laborer”), possibly from Ottoman Turkish قول (kul, “servant”). Another theory says that it is named after Gujarati કોળી (koḷī), a Gujarati tribe or caste. Other forms occur in Bengali কুলি (kuli) and Tamil கூலி (kūli, “daily hire”). Possibly also influenced by Hindustani کولی (kolī) / कोली (kolī, “weaver; low-class”). In Kurdish Koile (کۆیلە) and Quli (قولى): Slave, Servant. Kawli (Keweli): Low-Class, Gypsy.
Mandarin 苦力 (kǔlì, “hard labor”) may have been influenced by cognates of the above Hindi word in other languages and may have further influenced English.

Well, he and his troops had shown the koefietjies-the little coolies-how quickly and how easily Afrikaner explosive shells could knock it down.

1991, Larry Bond, Patrick Larkin, Vortex, page 56:

Even a coolie would have been better.

2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 199:

(Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica, Fiji, South Africa and other parts of Africa, ethnic slur) An Indian or a person of Indian descent.


cioară

ciori (plural)
cioară (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
cioara (accusative definite nominative singular)
ciori (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
ciorile (accusative definite nominative plural)
ciori (indefinite singular)
ciorii (definite singular)
ciori (indefinite plural)
ciorilor (definite plural)
cioară (singular vocative)
cioaro (singular vocative)
ciorilor (plural vocative)

Unknown. Possibly a substratum word of Dacian and ultimately Indo-European origin, related to Albanian sorrë, or borrowed from it; compare Aromanian cioarã, tsoarã. Also seemingly related to several Italian dialect cognates, compare Friulian çore, Calabrian ciola, Neapolitan ciàula, Sicilian ciaula and Tarantino ciola.

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) slur for a dark-skinned person, especially a Roma/Gypsy. Less usual, a slur for a black person


spook

Borrowed from Dutch spook (“ghost”), from Middle Dutch spooc (“spook, ghost”). Cognate with Middle Low German spôk, spûk (“apparition, ghost”), Middle High German gespük (“a haunting”), German Spuk, Danish spøge (“to haunt”), Swedish spöke (“ghost”). Doublet of puck.

cog

Some won't take spooks—hell, don't make no difference to me.

1976, Paul Schrader, Taxi Driver, spoken by Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro):

"[…] Dryades Street and that whole uptown neighborhood is gonna be worth a fortune once the white people take it back from you spooks and develop it. […]"

2002 February, Don Spears, Playing for Keeps, Los Angeles: Milligan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 179:

(slang, dated, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.


wigger

Blend of white + nigger. First use appears c. 1988. See cite below.

I have often heard the word "wigger" used to describe a white person who supposedly acts and talks "black," while the same type of taunting is put upon a black person who supposedly acts "white."

1988 April 20, “How race-conscious are high school students today?”, in The Washington Post, number ?, Washington, D.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, column ?:

To some extent wiggers are simply the most visible examples of a very American brand of teenage rebellion.

1999, Leonard Steinhorn et al., By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race, page 178:

And I just do not got the patience
To deal with these cocky Caucasians
Who think I'm some wigger who just tries to be black...

cultural appropriator
cultural appropriator

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A white person, typically young and male, considered to be overly infatuated with African-American or (UK) Afro-Caribbean culture, a cultural appropriator.


paleface

From pale + face, a supposed calque from a Native American language. First appearing in print in the early 19th century.

Dere is Great Wicked Spirit, too... Heart grow hard. Great pleasure was to kill pale-face. Dat feeling last, Blossom, till I see you. Feel like fader to you, and don't want your scalp... Still want all udder pale-face scalp. Want Bourdon scalp much as any.

1848, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter XXVIII, in The Bee-Hunter, or, The Oak Openings:

The hearts of the palefaces would not thrill to these superstitions of the red men, though we spoke of them in the centre of the haunted region.

1889, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Sketches from Memory”, in The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains:

The dusky hunters "guyed" the palefaces who could not do as well as they with their primitive weapons, even though the fire spouted from the iron tubes and the balls that could not be seen by the eye carried death farther than did the missiles launched by the natives.

1905, Edward S. Ellis, Deerfoot in The Mountains:

"Yes me big paleface—me come long way toward setting sun—go cross Big Water—go Buckskin—Siwash—chase cougar." The cougar, or mountain lion, is a Navajo god and the Navajos hold him in as much fear and reverence as do the Great Slave Indians the musk-ox.

1908, Zane Grey, The Last of the Plainsmen:

High Jack had been drinking too much rum ever since we landed in Boca. You know how an Indian is—the palefaces fixed his clock when they introduced him to firewater.

1909, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “He Also Serves”, in Options:

Some Blackfeet Indians, with a taste and a respect for Nature that shames the paleface, have protested to the Secretary of the Interior[…]

1916 March 11, “Silly Place-Names”, in Saturday Evening Post:

Speed is whitey's drug, from the palefaces who cook it to the Caspers who deal it to the ofay vanilla wafers who snort or spike it.

1998, Jim Goad, The Redneck Manifesto, page 128:

(ethnic slur) A white person, a person of European descent, particularly in Native American contexts.

սպիտակամորթ

a white person of European descent, in the context of American Indians


gin

Borrowed from Dharug dyin (“woman”), but having acquired a derogatory tone.

His next shot was discharged amongst the mob, and most unfortunately wounded the gin already mentioned ; who, with a child fastened to her back, slid down the bank, and lay, apparently dying, with her legs in the water.

1869, Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, volume 1, page 273:

On December 28, in the same year [1828], he [John Allen] fought single handed a tribe of native blacks, numbering from thirteen to eighteen, besides "gins" to bring them spears, waddies, etc.

1879 December 31, “Obituary”, in The Hobart Mercury, page 2:

1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
From my position I could see the gins pointing back, and as the men turned they looked for a moment and then made a wild rush for the entrance.

How they must have laughed about the strutting of her whose mother was a wanton and aunt a gin!

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XXI, in Capricornia, D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 353:

Dad said Shoesmith and Thompson had made one error that cost them their lives by letting the gins into the camp, and the blacks speared them all.

1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, published 1995, page 179:

But there was this gin there, see, what they called a kitchen girl.

2008, Bill Marsh, Jack Goldsmith, Goldie: Adventures in a Vanishing Australia, unnumbered page:

(Australia, now considered offensive, ethnic slur) An Aboriginal woman.


negri

is-noun

negri m (genitive singular negra, nominative plural negrar)

negra (genitive singular)
negrar (nominative plural)
negri (indefinite nominative singular)
negrinn (definite nominative singular)
negrar (indefinite nominative plural)
negrarnir (definite nominative plural)
negra (accusative indefinite singular)
negrann (accusative definite singular)
negra (accusative indefinite plural)
negrana (accusative definite plural)
negra (dative indefinite singular)
negranum (dative definite singular)
negrum (dative indefinite plural)
negrunum (dative definite plural)
negra (genitive indefinite singular)
negrans (definite genitive singular)
negra (genitive indefinite plural)
negranna (definite genitive plural)

First appeared in writing in the late 18ᵗʰ century. Borrowed from Danish neger, borrowed from German Neger, borrowed from French nègre, borrowed from Spanish negro and Portuguese negro, both inherited from Latin niger (“black”).

(ethnic slur, offensive, vulgar) A black person, negro


wog

The origins are not entirely clear. The term was first noted by the lexicographer F.C. Bowen in 1929, in his Sea Slang: a dictionary of the old-timers’ expressions and epithets, where he defines wogs as "lower class Babu shipping clerks on the Indian coast."
The most common theory is that it is a clipping of golliwog, which was first used as the name of a black-faced doll in Florence Upton’s 1895 book The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg. A variety of folk etymologies exist, with the most common claiming that the word is an acronym for one of either westernized, worthy, wily, or wonderful preceding “Oriental gentlemen”. Another erroneous claim is that it was used in the mid 1800s, with WOGS (meaning Working On Government Service) stencilled on the shirts of Indian workers in Egypt.
The Scientologist sense is from the usage of L. Ron Hubbard, who apparently accepted the folk etymology from “worthy Oriental gentleman” but employed the term to mean “common ordinary run-of-the-mill garden-variety humanoid”.

perker

an offensive term for a dark-skinned person

'One of the little Indian girls whose name is Polly has just come in to ask, " Miss D., what is a wog? One white boy called me a polliwog, and I thought a wog must be something bad."'

1889, The American Missionary Volume 43 p. 81:

"The King Edward's Horse called the Indian Cavalry 'The Wogs'—which is the diminutive of 'Golliwogs',—a description that was very apt of these dark apparitions in khaki and tin-hats."

1921, Lionel James, chapter 18, in The History of King Edward's Horse, page 188:

(UK, Ireland, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Any person who looks in-between "white" and "black": originally specifically an Indian, but later also broadened to anybody of Middle Eastern or Mediterranean descent.


macaroni

en-noun

macaroni (countable and uncountable, plural macaronis or macaronies)

→ Japanese: マカロニ (makaroni)

→ Korean: 마카로니 (makaroni)

→ Malay:

Arabic script: ماكاروني

Latin script: makaroni

→ Scottish Gaelic: macaroni

From Italian maccaroni, plural of maccarone, obsolete variant of maccheroni (“macaroni, fool”), of uncertain origin. Variously derived from late Byzantine Greek μακαρία (makaría, “food made from barley”), from Ancient Greek μακάριος (makários, “blessed, favored by the gods”), and from maccare (“to bruise, to crush”), archaic variant of ammaccare, from Latin maccāre (“to bruise, to crush”). Compare Sicilian maccarruni (“a single piece of macaroni”). As a fop, apparently from the British Macaroni Club rather than from Italian use of maccarone for fools and bumpkins. As a former form of currency, used to calque Spanish macuquino, 18th-century colonial Spanish slang for a similarly clipped coin.

cog

Surely I shall always be able, go where I will, among frogs or maccaronis, to procure sucre noir, or inchiostro nero.

1845 December 15, Frances Anne Kemble, letter

(countable, ethnic slur) Synonym of Italian (“a person from Italy or of Italian ethnicity”).


gabacho

es-noun

gabacho m (plural gabachos, feminine gabacha, feminine plural gabachas)

gabachos (plural)
gabacha (feminine)
gabachas (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Occitan gavach originally ‘bird’s crop, goitre, swelling’, later ‘mountain-dweller, northerner, peasant’ (because of the high incidence of disease in these populations).

(colloquial, derogatory, Mexico) foreigner, gringo, specifically, from the United States


redskin

From red + skin.
References to indigenous Americans' skin being red can be found from the 1580s, although not consistently (another European in 1584 described indigenous Americans as "yellowish"); in some cases the reference may be not to their skin color per se but to their painting themselves with red paint. A letter ostensibly from 1699, which was formerly cited as the earliest reference to "red skins", was not published until 1900 and is now recognized as fake.
The earliest documented instance of the term "redskin" is from a 1769 discussion between the Piankeshaw and John Wilkins, this and other early uses appear to be translating terms meaning red + skin, flesh, or people that the tribes of the Illinois / Mississippi Valley area used to refer to themselves when communicating with the French (who translated such terms as French peau-rouge) and with English-speakers (whence redskin).
Piecewise doublet of Rauðskinna.

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-redskin.wav

(ethnic slur, offensive) A Native American.


sand nigger

→ Finnish: hiekkaneekeri (calque)

From sand + nigger, referring to the several deserts located in much of the region.

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Middle Eastern or North African descent.


wise guy

(slang, offensive, ethnic slur) An Italian-American man.


golly

“Bloody gollies!” muttered David Bromhead, provoked by the assault into bitter xenophobia.

2005, Richard Snailham, The Blue Nile Revealed: The Story of the Great Abbai Expedition, 1968, page 217:

[…]poked fun at the American “fashion” of “political correctness” and reassured viewers that gollies and black minstrel shows are just good, old-fashioned, innocent fun.

2008, Theo van Leeuwen, Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Analysis, page 137:

(offensive, ethnic slur) Any dark-skinned person.

Abbreviation of golliwog:
Any dark-skinned person.


angol

angol (nominative singular)
angole (nominative plural)
angola (genitive singular)
angoli (genitive plural)
angolów (genitive plural)
angolowi (dative singular)
angolom (dative plural)
angola (accusative singular)
angoli (accusative plural)
angolów (accusative plural)
angolem (instrumental singular)
angolami (instrumental plural)
angolu (locative singular)
angolach (locative plural)
angolu (singular vocative)
angole (plural vocative)

(colloquial, mildly derogatory, ethnic slur) Englishman


darkey

The windmill under the care of Mr. Kinney, a kind hearted old Englishman, was to me a source of infinite interest and pleasure. The old man always seemed pleased when he saw a troop of darkey little urchins, with their tow-linen shirts fluttering in the breeze, approaching to view and admire the whirling wings of his wondrous machine.

1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York, Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:

Sometimes we overhear others saying, "Them colored people were slaves" down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master.

1865 August 7, Jordan Anderson, "To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson", republished in the New York Daily Tribune

(dated slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A person with dark skin.

чернилка

(slang, offensive) a person with dark skin


猴子

/xoʊ̯³⁵ d͡z̥z̩³/

/xəu²¹ t͡sz̩⁵³/

/hɐu̯²¹ t͡siː³⁵/

/xəu̯¹³ t͡sz̩³/

/xoʊ̯³⁵ d͡z̥z̩³/

/xəu²¹ t͡sz̩⁵³/

/hɐu̯²¹ t͡siː³⁵/

/xəu̯¹³ t͡sz̩³/

(ethnic slur, slang, derogatory) Southeast Asian (people)


pike

Clipping of turnpike (“a toll road, especially a toll expressway; a spiked barrier across a road, originally used to block access to the road until toll had been paid”)
Noun sense 2 (“gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller”) and verb sense 2 (“to depart, travel, especially to flee, run away”) may refer to someone frequently using turnpikes, or may be derived from Middle English pī̆ken (“to go, remove oneself”).

inh

The true "Pike," however, in the Californian sense of the word, is the wandering gypsy-like Southern poor white. […] "I found a Pike the other day killing and salting hogs, and actually hauling the salt pork off to sell it," said a gentleman in whose company we were discussing these people. / "Certainly that was an industrious Pike," said I. / "Yes, but confound it, they were my hogs," he replied, with natural wrath.

1873, Charles Nordhoff, “A January Day in Los Angeles”, in California: For Health, Pleasure, and Residence. A Book for Travellers and Residents, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, […], →OCLC, page 138:

(derogatory, ethnic slur, slang) A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.


rosbif

→ Catalan: rosbif

→ English: rosbif

→ Portuguese: rosbife

→ Russian: ро́стбиф (róstbif)

→ Turkish: rozbif

Borrowed from English roast beef, stereotypical food of the English.
Compare English frog (“French person”), from frog legs, corresponding term for French, likewise based on food; and Kraut for Germans.

(derogatory, ethnic slur) an English person


petrol sniffer

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal.


bougnoule

fr-noun

bougnoule m or f by sense (plural bougnoules)

Borrowed from Wolof ñuul (“black, to be black”), wu ñuula (“a person who is black”), fas wu ñuul (“black horse”), 1890. The original phrase is sometimes offensive in the Wolof language.

bor+

Jeune, j’ai le souvenir d’une madame Nicole / Instit’ qui pensait qu’un bougnoule n’était pas fait pour l’école

2005, “Thé à la menthe”, performed by La Caution:

I remember when I was young there was a Madame Nicole / A primary school teacher who thought that a wog was not cut out for school

À Amiens y a que des Noirs et des bougnoules, des crouilles t’y vas tu crois que t’en Afrique. Faut pas aller là-bas, c’est sûr que tu te fais dépouiller.

2014, Édouard Louis, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule [The End of Eddy], Le Seuil:

In Amiens there's nothing but blacks, wogs and Maghrebis; you go and you think you're in Africa. You mustn't go there; you'll definitely get robbed.

(ethnic slur) wog; raghead (person of North African descent)


jackeen

From Jack + -een (“little”), from Jack being a common English name.

To the sellers in the market, to the barmen and barmaids, to the beggars who importuned him for a lob Mr Dedalus told the same tale, that he was an old Corkonian, that he had been trying for thirty years to get rid of his Cork accent up in Dublin and that Peter Pickakafax beside him was his eldest son but that he was only a Dublin jackeen.

1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 105:

(Ireland, derogatory, ethnic slur) Synonym of Dubliner, especially (obsolete or historical) an excessively Anglophile one.


jigaboo

Possibly an African word akin to Bantu tshikabo (“they bow the head docilely”). Alternatively, perhaps from jig, formed similarly to bug and bugaboo.

(offensive, slang, dated) Any dark-skinned person.


Bantu

en-noun

Bantu (countable and uncountable, plural Bantus or Bantu)

From Proto-Bantu *bàntʊ̀ pl (“people”), as reconstructed by the 19th-century linguist Wilhelm Bleek.

(South Africa, dated, now offensive, ethnic slur) A black South African.


Flip

One of the children beckoned to me to try it and I started forward, but before I could move Ryland grabbed my coat. "They're fucking Flips, kid. The only way to play is to be better than they are. Go all the way to the top."

1993, Gary Paulsen, Eastern sun, winter moon: an autobiographical odyssey, →ISBN:

Later, the lieutenant came up to me. “Those dumb Flips finally got the message, right? […]

2002, Henry C Allan, H-Hour Plus Three: The Saga of the US Army Amphibious Engineers in the Pacific During World War II, →ISBN, page 188:

(slang, chiefly derogatory, ethnic slur) A Filipino; a person who is of Filipino background.


Hun

From Old English Hūnas, Hūne (both plural), from Late Latin Hunni, from Koine Greek Οὗννοι (Hoûnnoi), borrowed through Middle Iranian. Cognate with Old Norse húnir, Old High German Hunni. See also etymology of Xiongnu.
Compare Sogdian [script needed] (xwn), Sanskrit हूण (hūṇa), and 匈奴 (OC *hoŋ-nâ) (c. 318 BCE) > *hɨoŋ-nɑ (Eastern Han), which Schuessler (2014:264) proposes to be transcription of foreign *Hŏna ~ Hŭna. More at Huns.
As a derogatory term for Germans popularized by Rudyard Kipling, reacting to Germany's proposal that the Royal Navy be used to collect debts from Venezuela.

Doubtless the first German band to return to England will be composed of the most gentle peace and beer-loving Huns that ever visited our favoured shores.

1919, Gerald Featherstone Knight, Brother Bosch: An Airman's Escape from Germany:

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A German.


Nip

CHUNGKING, Oct. 10—Chinese counterblows against the Japanese offensive in south China have reeled the Nips back from two towns in the approaches to Kweilin, capital city of Kwangsi Province, today’s Chinese High Command communique announced.

1944 October 11, “Sino Counterblows Send Nips Reeling”, in The Stars and Stripes Mediterranean, Italy, →OCLC, page 1:

(dated, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A Japanese person.


Nip

(dated, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) Japanese.


Spaghetti

de-noun

Spaghetti m (strong, genitive Spaghettis or Spaghetti, plural Spaghettis)

Spaghettis (genitive)
Spaghetti (genitive)
Spaghettis (plural)
Spaghetti (nominative singular)
Spaghettis (definite nominative plural)
Spaghettis (genitive singular)
Spaghetti (genitive singular)
Spaghettis (definite genitive plural)
Spaghetti (dative singular)
Spaghettis (dative definite plural)
Spaghetti (accusative singular)
Spaghettis (accusative definite plural)

„Dir werde ich das Grinsen austreiben, verdammter Spaghetti! Ab morgen malochst du im Schlackenkeller.“

1970, Bruno Gluchowski, Blutiger Stahl, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, page 12:

Nun, seit zwei Jahren schreibt dieser Spaghetti bei »Nationalität« nicht mehr »Italiener«, sondern »Gastarbeiter«.

1988, Rafik Schami, Die Sehnsucht fährt schwarz, dtv, →ISBN, page 34:

«Das ist ein Spaghetti», sagte der Klinikangestellte, um sich sofort für diese Wortwahl zu entschuldigen. Das sei politisch nicht korrekt, er habe vielmehr gemeint, es handele sich um einen Mitbürger mit italienischen Vorfahren, […]

2012, Michael Böckler, Tod oder Reben, Rowohlt E-Book, →ISBN:

(derogatory, ethnic slur, dated) wop (person of Italian descent)


San

As a synonym of Bushmen introduced into ethnology from the 1960s, from Khoekhoe saan (singular saa) "foragers; people without wealth", via back-formation from Khoisan. Occasional citation as the Nama term for "Bushmen" from the 1880s.

(regionally, offensive, ethnic slur) Any of the foraging non-Bantu ethnic groups of southwestern Africa.


guinea

→ Arabic: جُنَيْه (junayh)

→ Egyptian Arabic: جنيه (ginēh)

→ Irish: gine

→ Scottish Gaelic: gini

→ Spanish: guinea

→ Welsh: gini

From Guinea, the early modern name for West Africa, the coins originally being made of gold from the region, mostly from the 'Gold Coast' (modern Ghana) and used for African trade, and the guinea fowl being found there.

If I’m to tell the whole truth—and why not? I sure have the time!—I’ll have to start by saying I was born Richard Pinzetti, in New York’s Little Italy. My father was an Old World guinea.

(US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.


svarting

svartingen (definite singular)
svartinger (indefinite plural)
svartingene (definite plural)