чёрный

ru-noun+

чёрный • (čórnyj) m anim (genitive чёрного, nominative plural чёрные, genitive plural чёрных, feminine чёрная, relational adjective черново́й)

čórnyj (romanization)
чёрного (genitive)
чёрные (nominative plural)
чёрных (genitive plural)
чёрная (feminine)
черново́й (adjective relational)
чёрный (nominative singular)
чёрные (nominative plural)
чёрного (genitive singular)
чёрных (genitive plural)
чёрному (dative singular)
чёрным (dative plural)
чёрного (accusative singular)
чёрных (accusative plural)
чёрным (instrumental singular)
чёрными (instrumental plural)
чёрном (prepositional singular)
чёрных (plural prepositional)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čьrnъ.
Cognates include Lithuanian kir̃snas and Sanskrit कृष्ण (kṛṣṇa, “black, dark”).

чёрно-бе́лый

чёрно- (čórno-, “black-and-”), -чёрный (-čórnyj, “-and-black, -black”)

(offensive, ethnic slur) a darker-skinned immigrant

на чёрный день

чёрный день m (čórnyj denʹ)


kaffir

en-noun

kaffir (countable and uncountable, plural kaffirs)

Ultimately from Arabic كَفَّار (kaffār, “infidel”) or كَافِر (kāfir, “unbeliever”), both from كَفَرَ (kafara, “to cover, to hide”); in some (especially early) uses, via Spanish cafre, Dutch kaffer or other European languages. Doublet of kafir.

If you ask a Kaffir why he does so-and-so, he will answer—"How can I tell? It has always been done by our forefathers."

I once heard him say to the gardener, 'Come along, son.' His wife scolded him saying, 'He's not son, don't call him son, he's a kaffir.'

1971, Naboth Mokgatle, The Autobiography of an Unknown South African:

"… and today here a white man is calling me a kaffir. This term that I absolutely resented." And that, says Nofomela, is his political motive.

Monkey see, monkey do ... which in this case refers to the baboons in Rhodesia - proves just how vulnerable the whities are in the hands of the kaffirs.

2000 April 9, Squirrel, “SA Silence on Mugabe's actions”, in soc.culture.south-africa (Usenet):

(countable, South Africa, Rhodesia, ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory) A black person.


-stan

From Classical Persian ـستان (-istān), from Middle Persian -stʾn' (-estān), from Old Persian 𐎿𐎫𐎠𐎴 (s-t-a-n /stāna/), from Proto-Iranian *stáHnam, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *stʰáHnam, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”).
Compare Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬁𐬥𐬀 (stāna), Sanskrit स्थान (sthā́na), Russian стан (stan) (< Proto-Slavic *stanъ), English stay, stand, state.

der

London + -i- + -stan → Londonistan

Dearborn + -i- + -stan → Dearbornistan

Sweden + -i- + -stan → Swedistan

Middle Easterner
Middle Easterner#English

(derogatory, ethnic slur) Used after European and American place names to emphasize that there are many Middle Easterners or Muslims there.

-स्तान

connected with diacritic -i- after consonants


hunky

From the older *hunk, probably alteration of Hungarian + -ie/-y. Compare bohunk and honky / honkey.

"All hunkies and wops, and no wonder there was seven hundred and fifty of them."

He made hunkies and cut ice-cream sandwiches.

1940, Unemployment Compensation Interpretation Service: Benefit series, page 183:

The night before I had let a hunky called Big John have a dollar's worth of chips in the poker game […]

1952, Chester Himes, Cast the First Stone, page 66:

He said, "I'm going to buy this building and turn this into a Nigger bar. I'm going to bar all you fucking hunkies."

1969, Robert Beck (Iceberg Slim), Trick Baby, page 149

On the negative side, a hunky was culturally schizophrenic, an inhabitant of crowded and ill-kept rooms and whose clothing was in poor taste, an alcoholic, intrinsically dull and stupid, an offspring of domineering parents, […]

1994, Josephine Wtulich, American Xenophobia and the Slav Immigrant: A Living Legacy of Mind and Spirit:

Like blacks, who were the only ethnic group below them on the social scale, Eastern Europeans, contemptuously labelled ‘hunkies’, were dismissed as incapable and untrustworthy.

2009, Victor Bockris, Warhol: The Biography, page 20:

(US, slang, now uncommon, ethnic slur) A Hungarian or other eastern European, e.g. a Romanian or a Slav. (Sometimes applied (like honky) to any white person.)


jeet

Clipping of pajeet (“an Indian”), the second part of which is derived from Hindi जीत (jīt, “victory, win”). Sense 2 likely stems from the fact Indian posters tended to shill low circulation crypto coins (or "shitcoins") in order to get anons on 4chan's /biz/ board to buy into them, only for the scammer to sell off at the first hint the coin was going for a downturn.

So unless Asian chicks secretly date jeets somewhere no one ever fucking notices them, it just ain't happening. Always white dudes or other asian dudes.

2024 February 4, u/fourthwallcrisis, “Anon is asianmasculinity sub user”, in Reddit, r/4chan, archived from the original on 2024-09-08:

Every job opening has 100s of jeets flooding applications so good luck getting your resume looked at. The tech industry(and especially tech depts in non-tech companies) is mutilating itself to reduce costs, and not even by that much because they could accomplish more with less people if they just hired westerners instead of jeets. The era of easy job hunting is tech is over.

2024 July 31, u/SituatiornIndividjul, “The white collar job market feels like it has been unbelievably decimated.”, in Reddit, r/redscarepod, archived from the original on 2024-09-08:

No self respecting white woman would ever marry a jeet

2024 August 31, @JamesPGoddard90, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-09-08:

Decided to give jeets a break and buy some Indian cuisine for the family.

2024 September 1, @hyperboreanakl, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-09-08:

(Internet slang, 4chan, offensive, ethnic slur) An Indian.


coconut

en-noun

coconut (countable and uncountable, plural coconuts)

→ Japanese: ココナッツ (kokonattsu)

From coco + nut. In reference to assimilated Hispanic or Black people, derived from the fruit's exotic origins and the slur that they are "brown on the outside, white on the inside". In reference to Polynesians, from the ubiquity of coconut palms in the area.

that accounts for the milk in the coconut

After that I was regarded as comic. I became a ‘coconut’—someone brown on the outside, white on the inside. I was the bleached academic—more white than the anglo professors. In my classes several students glared at me, clearly seeing in me the person they feared ever becoming. Who was I, after all, but some comic Queequeg, holding close to my breast a reliquary containing the white powder of a dead European civilization?

1982, Richard Rodriguez, “Profession”, in Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:

(US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Hispanic or other dark-skinned person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a race traitor.

Your mum is a white whore, you coconut.

2016 June 8, “Containment”, in Cleverman, episode 2, spoken by Waruu West [speaking to half-brother Koen West]:

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

(New Zealand, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Pacific islander.


Kanake

de-noun

Kanake m (weak, genitive Kanaken, plural Kanaken, feminine Kanakin)

Kanaken (genitive)
Kanaken (plural)
Kanakin (feminine)
Kanake (nominative singular)
Kanaken (definite nominative plural)
Kanaken (genitive singular)
Kanaken (definite genitive plural)
Kanaken (dative singular)
Kanaken (dative definite plural)
Kanaken (accusative singular)
Kanaken (accusative definite plural)

Ultimately from Hawaiian kanaka (“person”).

Alternative forms: Kanacke, Kanak, Kanack

Wie lebt es sich als Kanake in Deutschland, war die Frage, die ich mir und anderen gestellt habe. Kanake, ein Etikett, das nach mehr als 30 Jahren Immigrationsgeschichte von Türken nicht nur Schimpfwort ist, sondern auch ein Name, den »Gastarbeiterkinder« der zweiten und vor allem der dritten Generation mit stolzem Trotz führen.

2004 [1995], Feridun Zaimoğlu, Kanak Sprak, Rotbuch, →ISBN, page 9:

Da kommt also der gute Kanake, stellt sich mitten rein, und während er sich fragt, warum die Leute so Spalier stehen, wird er im nächsten Moment auf seinen Platz verwiesen. Schließlich gehört jeder irgendwohin und der Kanake am besten[…]

2012, Maria Stehle, Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German Culture: Textscapes, Filmscapes, Soundscapes, Camden House, →ISBN, page 56:

(often derogatory, ethnic slur) Any dark-skinned foreigner.


Kümmeltürke

Kümmeltürke m (weak, genitive Kümmeltürken, plural Kümmeltürken, feminine Kümmeltürkin)

Kümmeltürken (genitive)
Kümmeltürken (plural)
Kümmeltürkin (feminine)
Kümmeltürke (nominative singular)
Kümmeltürken (definite nominative plural)
Kümmeltürken (genitive singular)
Kümmeltürken (definite genitive plural)
Kümmeltürken (dative singular)
Kümmeltürken (dative definite plural)
Kümmeltürken (accusative singular)
Kümmeltürken (accusative definite plural)

/ˈkʏml̩ˌtʏʁkə/

From Kümmel (“caraway”) + Türke (“Turk”). The term was first coined in the 18th century to refer to students from Kümmeltürkei, an area so named for its caraway production, but in modern times is used exclusively in a transferred sense as a slur, sometimes explained as being due to Turks smelling like caraway or cumin.

(derogatory, ethnic slur, dated) Turk; Middle Easterner


muslim

muslim (nominative singular)
muslimowie (nominative plural)
muslimy (nominative plural)
muslimy (derogatory nominative plural)
muslima (genitive singular)
muslimów (genitive plural)
muslimowi (dative singular)
muslimom (dative plural)
muslima (accusative singular)
muslimów (accusative plural)
muslimem (instrumental singular)
muslimami (instrumental plural)
muslimie (locative singular)
muslimach (locative plural)
muslimie (singular vocative)
muslimowie (plural vocative)
muslimy (plural vocative)


mick

en-adj

mick (comparative more mick, superlative most mick)

more mick (comparative)
most mick (superlative)

Geology is so mick - half the jocks are in it.


gweilo

From Cantonese 鬼佬 (gwai² lou²), from 鬼 (gwai², “ghost”) + 佬 (lou², “guy, man”).

She had ruffled the bed and laid a frilly nightdress on the floor because so far as the block was concerned Phoebe was the half-kwailo bastard who whored with the fat foreign devil.

1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 179:

(colloquial, ethnic slur) A white person in China, (particularly) a man; a ‘foreign devil’.


reptilian

From reptile + -ian, replacing earlier reptilious and adjectival reptile.

(figuratively) A reptilian person, especially (ethnic slur) a Jew.


nog

(offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A dark-skinned person; nig-nog.

(Australia, dated, ethnic slur) A Vietnamese person.


turk

(slang, dated, ethnic slur, derogatory) a dark-haired or dark-skinned immigrant, regardless of country of origin


nigra

A collateral form of negro with colloquial reduction of unstressed /oʊ/, /əʊ/ to /ə/ as in fella.

She used the term nigger and its close South Carolina cognate nigra only when quoting others with disapproval.

2012, Karen Fields, Barbara J. Fields, “Authors' Note”, in Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, Verso Books, →ISBN:

(offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.


blatte

Probably from the verb blattra (“to talk nonsense”).

(slang, ethnic slur, often derogatory) a person with an immigrant background (and brown or dark skin); often restricted to people of Middle Eastern or North African descent, and sometimes restricted to people thought to be poorly integrated into society


svenne

Used by immigrants in Sweden in reference to ethnic Swedes. It originates from a nickname for Sven.^([citation needed])

Är han svenne?

Is he an [ethnic/native] Swede? [see vara for why there is no particle]

en fest med en massa svennar

a party with a bunch of [ethnic/native] Swedes

en typisk svenne

(colloquial, mildly ethnic slur, sometimes derogatory or humorous) an ethnic/native Swede (as opposed to someone with an immigrant background)


Cajun

An Anglicization of the Acadian French Cadien (itself an aphetic form of Acadien (“Acadian”)), reflecting the palatalization of /dj/ to /d͡ʒ/ in the Acadian dialect.

Damn Cajuns! They're all a bunch of lazy coonasses!

(ethnic slur, dated) Any uneducated poor Francophone in French Louisiana.


towelhead

(slang, ethnic slur, religious slur) A member of the Muslims, Arabs, Sikhs, and other groups that traditionally wear headdress such as a turban and keffiyeh or headscarf.


rug

Uncertain; probably of North Germanic origin; perhaps inherited via Middle English *rugge (suggested by Middle English ruggy (“hairy, shaggy, bristly”) and rugged (“hairy, shaggy, rugged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“shagginess, tuft”), from Proto-Germanic *rawwō (“long wool”), probably related to *rūhaz (“rough”), related to English rag and rough.
Cognate with dialectal Norwegian rugga (“coarse coverlet”), Swedish rugg (“rough entangled hair”), related to English rag and rough. Compare also Old English rȳhe (“rug, rough covering, blanket”).

cog

We're the motherfuckers be fightin' when the rugs [black prisoners] start wasting people around here.

1980, John Irwin, Prisons in Turmoil, page 212:

(US, slang, ethnic slur) Short for rughead.


kartoffel

head

kartoffel c (singular definite kartoflen or kartoffelen, plural indefinite kartofler)

kartoflen (definite singular)
kartoffelen (definite singular)
kartofler (indefinite plural)
kartoffel (indefinite nominative singular)
kartoflen (definite nominative singular)
kartoffelen (definite nominative singular)
kartofler (indefinite nominative plural)
kartoflerne (definite nominative plural)
kartoffels (genitive indefinite singular)
kartoflens (definite genitive singular)
kartoffelens (definite genitive singular)
kartoflers (genitive indefinite plural)
kartoflernes (definite genitive plural)

→ Icelandic: kartafla

[kʰɑ̈ˈtsʰɒ̽fəl]

[kʰæ̝ˈtsʰɒ̽fəl]

Borrowed from German Kartoffel, from Italian tartufolo, diminutive of tartufo (“truffle”).

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) whitey (A derogatory word used about ethnic Danes, mostly used by Danish citizens of non-Germanic origin.)


Fidschi

de-noun

Fidschi m (strong, genitive Fidschis, plural Fidschis or Fidschi, feminine Fidschi)

Fidschis (genitive)
Fidschis (plural)
Fidschi (plural)
Fidschi (feminine)
Fidschi (nominative singular)
Fidschis (definite nominative plural)
Fidschi (definite nominative plural)
Fidschis (genitive singular)
Fidschis (definite genitive plural)
Fidschi (definite genitive plural)
Fidschi (dative singular)
Fidschis (dative definite plural)
Fidschi (dative definite plural)
Fidschi (accusative singular)
Fidschis (accusative definite plural)
Fidschi (accusative definite plural)

Originated in former East Germany. Formerly written as Vitschi.

(offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) Vietnamese person

(offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur, by extension) East Asian or Southeast Asian person


redneck

Compound of red + neck. Compare rooinek. The term originally characterized farmers that had a red neck, caused by sunburn from long hours working in the fields.

Sample a look back you look and find / Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check

1989, “Fight the Power”, in Fear of a Black Planet, performed by Public Enemy:

Southern United States
Southern United States

(slang, usually derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.


baguette

Borrowed from French baguette (“stick”), from Italian bacchetta.

(ethnic slur, mildly offensive, slang) A French person, or a person of French descent.


coon

And that one looks Jewish, and that one's a coon! Who let all this riff-raff into the room?

1979, Roger Waters (lyrics and music), “In the Flesh”, in The Wall, performed by Pink Floyd:

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

(Southern US, ethnic slur) A coonass; a white Acadian French person who lives in the swamps.


hillbilly

→ German: Hillbilly

→ Russian: хи́ллбилли (xíllbilli)

From hill + billy (“fellow”). Compare Scots chapman billie (“travelling salesman”).

cog

Thanks to the massive migration from the poorer regions of Appalachia to places like Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, hillbilly values spread widely along with hillbilly people.

2017, JD Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, →ISBN, page 21:

(ethnic slur) A white person from the rural southern part of the United States, especially the Southeastern states.

metsäläinen

white person from the rural southern United States


Ali Baba

From Arabic عَلِيّ بَابَا (ʕaliyy bābā). The use of Ali Baba to designate a type of container originates from the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (see the use as proper noun below), suggesting the appearance of the oil jars in which the thieves hide in the story.

bor

عَلِيّ بَابَا

Arabic عَلِيّ بَابَا (ʕaliyy bābā)

(slang, ethnic slur, US, military) An Iraqi.


lubra

Derived from the word for wife or woman in the Nuenonne language, an Indigenous language of southern Tasmania.

At about 100 yards distant I saw a large fire and it immediaterly occurred to me that his wife was dead and that the fire was the funeral pile of his deceased wife. I asked him where his lubra was and he said lubra logerna unee (dead in the fire).

1829, George Augustus Robinson, Friendly Mission, page 61:

Mr. Foelsche's reports show how, at Port Essington, the men will barter their lubras, and everything they possess, for square gin; and, in the south, restrictions have had to be placed upon the publicans to prevent them selling drink to the few natives that remain.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 301:

We went into the house and Roy called out, “Alice, boil ’im billy, make some tea,” and a few minutes later a comely young lubra appeared, a huge teapot in one hand and a plate with a big brownie on it.

The lubras were standing up now, in a tight little circle, with their fighting sticks raised. There was another burst of argument and then first one lubra, then another struck her opponent a blow on the head.

2001, Robert Denis Whittle, One Skin For An Overlander, page 166:

As I have mentioned before, Lubra Creek derived its name from a wanton slaughter of several lubras by an enraged band of squatters whose sheep had been stolen, slaughtered and eaten by the blacks. It was usual when anything of that kind happened to band together for the squatter, and hunt for the delinquents and shoot down the first blacks they caught innocent or guilty. In the case of the Lubra Creek tragedy, it appears they could not drop across any black fellows and finding the lubras hidden in the shrub, ruthlessly shot them down.

2003, Les Hughes, Henry Mundy: A Young Australian Pioneer, page 94:

(Australia, now racially offensive, ethnic slur) A female Aboriginal Australian.


injun

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1805–15; variant of Indian. Compare Cajun.

We'll kill ourselves an injun, and maybe two or three!

You want a problem, well I guess we got one now / I really don't know how / There's injuns over every goddamn hill

1999, “What Do You Want Me to Say?”, in Emergency & I, performed by the Dismemberment Plan:

Instead of grudgingly admitting the “Injuns” weren’t so bad after all, it actually explores the conflicted culpability of individual white Americans.

2024 February 2, Ellen E. Jones, “Beyond the pale: where are all the films about ‘whiteness’?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(US, slang, offensive) A Native American.

en:Native American name controversy#Controversial terminology


bean-eater

The sense referring to Mexicans is explained by beans being a staple of Mexican cuisine.
The sense referring to Bostonians came from a time when navy beans were a staple in Boston, especially as Boston baked beans. It is sometimes said to have originated in reference to immigrants there, but in usage it more often has referred to Boston Brahmins just as much as other Bostonians, and the assertion may well be only an ill-founded assumption.

(US, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A Mexican.


whitey

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From white (“bright and colorless; a white-skinned person”) + -y (“forming diminutives”).

af

I can't pay no doctor bills / But whitey’s on the moon / Ten years from now I'll be payin' still / While whitey’s on the moon

1970, “Whitey on the Moon”, in Gil Scott-Heron (lyrics), Small Talk at 125th and Lenox:

She's a whitey in jeans / She's an outlaw

1970, “Outlaw”, in Outlaw, performed by Eugene McDaniels:

"Whites don't like us because they think we're niggies. And blacks don't like us because they think we're whiteys. We don't fit anywhere. That's why we've gone off alone, created a totally separate thing."

1976, New York Magazine, volume 9, number 47, page 102:

Touché, honky. So, whitey, what did you do today? Oppress a new land and make the people there Christians against their will?

1997, Dave Chappelle, “Racism Connoisseur”, in HBO Comedy Half-Hour (television production):

(especially African-American Vernacular, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A white person, a person of Western European descent.


honky

Sense of “factory hand” attested from 1946. Compare hunky, bohunk.
Most likely from hunky (“Hungarian, Slav, eastern European; any white person”), an African-American vernacular shortening of Hungarian. Another possible etymon is Wolof xonq (“red, pink”), a term frequently used in African languages to describe white men.
As a term of racial abuse it was popularized by the Black Panther Party starting from 1967, who sought a rebuttal to nigger.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:honky.

(US, Canada, derogatory, ethnic slur) A white (Caucasian) person.


buckwheat

en-noun

buckwheat (usually uncountable, plural buckwheats)

Ultimately from Middle Low German bōkwête (“beech-wheat”) (so called because of its triangular seeds, which resemble the much larger seeds of the beech nut from the beech tree, and the fact that it is used like wheat), probably via Middle Dutch boecweit, boecweite. Compare German Buchweizen.
Despite the name, buckwheat is not related to wheat, as it is not a grass.

der

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, US) Curly hair of a black person.


coño

(vulgar, slang, ethnic slur) Spanish person


jook-sing

Borrowed from Cantonese 竹升 (zuk1 sing1). See jook-sing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A Chinese person, especially a Cantonese person born in the USA or Canada, who has overly assimilated to Western culture and has little or no command of any Chinese language.

竹升

Overly assimilated Chinese living outside China


ding

(Western Australia, offensive, ethnic slur) an Italian person, specifically an Italian Australian


pickaninny

Australian Kriol: biginini

Bajan: pickney

Bislama: pikinini

Jamaican Creole: pickney

Pijin: pikinini

Tok Pisin: pikinini

Torres Strait Creole: biginini, piknini

Probably from a Portuguese pidgin, from Portuguese pequenino (“boy, child”), noun use of pequenino (“tiny”), from pequeno (“small”). In South African uses probably partly after Afrikaans pikenien.

A small white donkey glimmered into sight, and behind it a milk cart, rattling its cans, and behind that ran a small and ragged piccaninny, a child of perhaps seven years, whose teeth were rattling so loudly they sounded like falling pebbles even across the width of the garden.

1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 134:

What a relief it must be for Blair to get out of England. It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies

2002 January 10, Boris Johnson, “If Blair's so good at running the Congo, let him stay there”, in The Daily Telegraph:

The pickaninny was an imagined, subhuman black juvenile who was typically depicted outdoors, merrily accepting (or even inviting) violence. The word (alternatively spelled “picaninny” or “piccaninny”) dates to the seventeenth century, […]

2011, Robin Bernstein, Racial Innocence, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 34:

(colloquial, now offensive, ethnic slur) A black child.


greaseball

From grease + ball; possibly derived from the fact that Italians and Italian-Americans are stereotyped as having greasy or greased-up hair.

(Italian)

Do you think I wanted to walk across that stage and get my diploma and look down and see that fat greaseball sitting there? […] I got into a fraternity, too. It wasn’t one of the good ones, not with a name like Pinzetti, but a fraternity all the same.

(US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent especially, but also used pejoratively to refer to people of Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, other Mediterranean, or Latin American descent.


goombah

From Neapolitan cumpà and Sicilian cumpari (“buddy, pal”, akin to Italian compare, Spanish compadre, from Latin compater, literally “godfather”), a word often used to refer to “family friends” or friends close enough to be considered an “aunt” or “uncle”, though not related by blood.
 To an English-speaking ear, the unaspirated stops of Southern Italian dialects (especially Neapolitan) are interpreted as voiced stops, yielding goombah. Compare South American Spanish cumpa. Doublet of compadre, compeer, and compere.

doublet

(US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent (often implies the person is connected to Italian organized crime)


dago

Alteration of diego (“Spaniard”), from Spanish Diego (common Spanish name) by law of Hobson-Jobson.

And all foreigners to him were "dem bloody dagoes"—for, according to his theory, foreigners were responsible for unemployment.

1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXVIII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:

(UK, Ireland, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, or other Mediterranean descent.

"Matilda's making us omelettes, that all right, Miss Tomson."
"Are they going to reek."
"Dear me, I hope not. I instructed her to leave out particularly strong ingredients."
"Just so I don't leave here smelling like a dago."

1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 19:

(US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.


wop

From Neapolitan guappo (“dude, stud”), a greeting borrowed from Spanish guapo (“bold, handsome”). Contrary to popular belief, the term is not an acronym of without passport or working off passage, which are backronyms derived from the term.

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


ちょん

ちょん (canonical)
チョン (canonical)
chon (romanization)

(derogatory, ethnic slur) Korean person; kimchi


white bread

en-noun

white bread (usually uncountable, plural white breads)

Teyshawn wanted to yell whitebreads did it—fucking whitebreads.

2006, Michael Soltys, The Grass Is Green, section 296:

evelyn. Fuck you, white bread.
vincent. Oh, I'm white?
evelyn. You don't act black.
vincent. (smiling) And yet, people still treat me like I'm black.

2011, Kathryn Grant, The Good Counselor, act I, scene ii:

(US, ethnic slur, uncommon) A white person, a person of European descent, a person who 'acts white'.


white bread

en-adj

white bread (comparative more white bread, superlative most white bread)

more white bread (comparative)
most white bread (superlative)

[Rudy] Giuliani is hedging a bit, but he's not the white-bread cop so many blacks expect him to be.

1993 November 15, Eric Pooley, “Can Giuliani Pull It Together?”, in New York, volume 26, number 45, page 53:

(US ethnic slur) Of or relating to white people.


banaan

nl-noun

banaan m or f (plural bananen, diminutive banaantje n)

bananen (plural)
banaantje (diminutive neuter)

Berbice Creole Dutch: banana

Negerhollands: banana

Skepi Creole Dutch: banan

→? Aukan: baana

→? Sranan Tongo: bana

→ Caribbean Hindustani: báná

→ Caribbean Javanese: banah

Borrowed from Portuguese banana, probably from a West African language.

(offensive, ethnic slur) black person, person of African heritage


kimchi

en-noun

kimchi (usually uncountable, plural kimchis)

Borrowed from Korean 김치 (gimchi), ultimately composed within Korea of Chinese-derived morphemes 沉 (MC drim, “submerged, soaked”) and 菜 (MC tshojH, “vegetable”), i.e. "fermented vegetable". Doublet of kimuchi.

How did I know the kimchis were trying to smuggle the crate out of Japan?

1994, Richard Marcinko, Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell, Pocket Books, page 238:

In the United States, Germans are sometimes called "krauts" ... Koreans "kimchis," and poor white Southerners "crackers"...

2007, Pamela Goyan Kittler, Kathryn Sucher, Food and Culture, Cengage Learning, page 5:

... he doesn't know the difference between Ping-Pongs and Kimchis.

2011, Gerald M. Weinberg, Freshman Murders, Weinberg & Weinberg:

(countable, slang, ethnic slur, derogatory) A Korean person.


rooinek

From Afrikaans rooinek, from rooi (“red”) + nek (“neck”). The term refers to South Africans of British descent, who were perceived by Afrikaners to wear headgear (such as solar topees or no hat at all) which was inadequate in protecting them from sunburn, and thus caused them to have red necks. Other theories include the term being a reference to the red collars of 19th-century British military uniforms or to the red markings that British-South African farmers painted on their imported merino sheep. Compare redneck.

Again and again the surprise was effected, not by the nation of hunters, but by those rooineks whose want of cunning and of veld-craft had for so long been a subject of derision and merriment.

1900, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War, published 2011, page 470:

“Well,” said she, “if I hadn't killed more Rooineks than that, I'd be ashamed of myself.”

1904, Sabine Baring-Gould, The White Flag:

'My father was at Bronkhurst Spruit,' he continued. 'How they shot the rooineks down that day! Our men lay in the long grass, while the redcoats stood in line on the road, and they shot them like rabbits. The fools! Their guns were in the carts.'

1906, William Henry Fitchett, Ithuriel's Spear, published 2008, page 240:

That evening […] the other, quite frankly, said that these rooineks got her down, they were all the same, they thought they owned the earth they walked on.

1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 13:

I couldn't care that the ous call me rooinek and sometimes whiterat because of my hair and face. At least I am not a hairyback I tell them.

1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 27:

(South Africa, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Englishman, or a South African that speaks English as opposed to Afrikaans.


kömür

head

kömür (definite accusative kömürü, plural kömürler)

kömürü (accusative definite)
kömürler (plural)
kömür (nominative singular)
kömürler (nominative plural)
kömürü (accusative definite singular)
kömürleri (accusative definite plural)
kömüre (dative singular)
kömürlere (dative plural)
kömürde (locative singular)
kömürlerde (locative plural)
kömürden (ablative singular)
kömürlerden (ablative plural)
kömürün (genitive singular)
kömürlerin (genitive plural)
kömürüm (first-person nominative singular)
kömürlerim (first-person nominative singular)
kömürün (nominative second-person singular)
kömürlerin (nominative second-person singular)
kömürü (nominative singular third-person)
kömürleri (nominative singular third-person)
kömürümüz (first-person nominative plural)
kömürlerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
kömürünüz (nominative plural second-person)
kömürleriniz (nominative plural second-person)
kömürleri (nominative plural third-person)
kömürümü (accusative definite first-person singular)
kömürlerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
kömürünü (accusative definite second-person singular)
kömürlerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
kömürünü (accusative definite singular third-person)
kömürlerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
kömürümüzü (accusative definite first-person plural)
kömürlerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
kömürünüzü (accusative definite plural second-person)
kömürlerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
kömürlerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
kömürüme (dative first-person singular)
kömürlerime (dative first-person singular)
kömürüne (dative second-person singular)
kömürlerine (dative second-person singular)
kömürüne (dative singular third-person)
kömürlerine (dative singular third-person)
kömürümüze (dative first-person plural)
kömürlerimize (dative first-person plural)
kömürünüze (dative plural second-person)
kömürlerinize (dative plural second-person)
kömürlerine (dative plural third-person)
kömürümde (first-person locative singular)
kömürlerimde (first-person locative singular)
kömüründe (locative second-person singular)
kömürlerinde (locative second-person singular)
kömüründe (locative singular third-person)
kömürlerinde (locative singular third-person)
kömürümüzde (first-person locative plural)
kömürlerimizde (first-person locative plural)
kömürünüzde (locative plural second-person)
kömürlerinizde (locative plural second-person)
kömürlerinde (locative plural third-person)
kömürümden (ablative first-person singular)
kömürlerimden (ablative first-person singular)
kömüründen (ablative second-person singular)
kömürlerinden (ablative second-person singular)
kömüründen (ablative singular third-person)
kömürlerinden (ablative singular third-person)
kömürümüzden (ablative first-person plural)
kömürlerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
kömürünüzden (ablative plural second-person)
kömürlerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
kömürlerinden (ablative plural third-person)
kömürümün (first-person genitive singular)
kömürlerimin (first-person genitive singular)
kömürünün (genitive second-person singular)
kömürlerinin (genitive second-person singular)
kömürünün (genitive singular third-person)
kömürlerinin (genitive singular third-person)
kömürümüzün (first-person genitive plural)
kömürlerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
kömürünüzün (genitive plural second-person)
kömürlerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
kömürlerinin (genitive plural third-person)

From Ottoman Turkish كومور (kömür), from Proto-Turkic *kömür (“coal”).

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


reffo

From refugee + -o (“diminutive suffix”).

‘It may be like this,’ he said ‘Australians are too bloody scared to be frankly unpleasant: Most of them hate the guts of reffos and other alien intruders, especially Jews and Dagos. But they like being liked and cannot resist giving help if it is needed, except, of course, if it′s the boss who needs it.[…]’

1980, Emery Barcs, Backyard of Mars: Memoirs of the “Reffo” Period in Australia, page 73:

On the top floor behind the gabled windows, it was rumored, the reffo family slept. Mishka did not know, until he began attending the regional school in Mossman at the age of six, that he was a reffo. He was born in the Daintree. His mother before him was born in Daintree. But his grandparents had arrived as refugees from a concentration camp in 1946 and the Bartoks were still a reffo family.

2007, Janette Turner Hospital, Orpheus Lost, HarperCollins, published 2010, unnumbered page:

‘There are the reffoes,’ he said loudly. ‘Been here for over a week now and hardly been out at all.[…]’

2010, Alison Booth, Stillwater Creek, published 2011, page 56:

(Australia, derogatory, ethnic slur) A refugee who has settled in Australia.


beaner

From bean + -er. Literally "a person who eats beans".
Beans are a staple of Mexican cuisine.

You're gonna work out good, Dave. I was afraid they were gonna hire another nigger or a beaner.

1999, Gregory Alan Norton, There Ain't no Justice, Just Us, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 32:

Hey bro I'm a beaner, we ain't good at math. Jeez, dawn 'ju watch TV?

2003, Roy Yelverton, “chapter 2”, in Shovelhead Red – The Drifter's Way, archived from the original on 2007-08-04:

I'm a beaner, and I'm telling you white people, that's a bullshit number right off the bat!

(US, ethnic slur, offensive, by extension) Any Hispanic or Latino person.


slant

Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectical slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.

kalteva lokero

depression with sloping bottom to hold watercolors

(US, ethnic slur, derogatory) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.


nekru

nekru (nominative singular)
nekrut (nominative plural)
nekru (accusative nominative singular)
nekrut (accusative nominative plural)
nekrun (accusative genitive singular)
nekrut (accusative genitive plural)
nekrun (genitive singular)
nekrujen (genitive plural)
nekrua (partitive singular)
nekruja (partitive plural)
nekrussa (inessive singular)
nekruissa (inessive plural)
nekrusta (elative singular)
nekruista (elative plural)
nekruun (illative singular)
nekruihin (illative plural)
nekrulla (adessive singular)
nekruilla (adessive plural)
nekrulta (ablative singular)
nekruilta (ablative plural)
nekrulle (allative singular)
nekruille (allative plural)
nekruna (essive singular)
nekruina (essive plural)
nekruksi (singular translative)
nekruiksi (plural translative)
nekrutta (abessive singular)
nekruitta (abessive plural)
nekruin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
nekruni (nominative singular)
nekruni (nominative plural)
nekruni (accusative nominative singular)
nekruni (accusative nominative plural)
nekruni (accusative genitive singular)
nekruni (accusative genitive plural)
nekruni (genitive singular)
nekrujeni (genitive plural)
nekruani (partitive singular)
nekrujani (partitive plural)
nekrussani (inessive singular)
nekruissani (inessive plural)
nekrustani (elative singular)
nekruistani (elative plural)
nekruuni (illative singular)
nekruihini (illative plural)
nekrullani (adessive singular)
nekruillani (adessive plural)
nekrultani (ablative singular)
nekruiltani (ablative plural)
nekrulleni (allative singular)
nekruilleni (allative plural)
nekrunani (essive singular)
nekruinani (essive plural)
nekrukseni (singular translative)
nekruikseni (plural translative)
nekruttani (abessive singular)
nekruittani (abessive plural)
nekruineni (comitative plural)
nekrusi (nominative singular)
nekrusi (nominative plural)
nekrusi (accusative nominative singular)
nekrusi (accusative nominative plural)
nekrusi (accusative genitive singular)
nekrusi (accusative genitive plural)
nekrusi (genitive singular)
nekrujesi (genitive plural)
nekruasi (partitive singular)
nekrujasi (partitive plural)
nekrussasi (inessive singular)
nekruissasi (inessive plural)
nekrustasi (elative singular)
nekruistasi (elative plural)
nekruusi (illative singular)
nekruihisi (illative plural)
nekrullasi (adessive singular)
nekruillasi (adessive plural)
nekrultasi (ablative singular)
nekruiltasi (ablative plural)
nekrullesi (allative singular)
nekruillesi (allative plural)
nekrunasi (essive singular)
nekruinasi (essive plural)
nekruksesi (singular translative)
nekruiksesi (plural translative)
nekruttasi (abessive singular)
nekruittasi (abessive plural)
nekruinesi (comitative plural)
nekrumme (nominative singular)
nekrumme (nominative plural)
nekrumme (accusative nominative singular)
nekrumme (accusative nominative plural)
nekrumme (accusative genitive singular)
nekrumme (accusative genitive plural)
nekrumme (genitive singular)
nekrujemme (genitive plural)
nekruamme (partitive singular)
nekrujamme (partitive plural)
nekrussamme (inessive singular)
nekruissamme (inessive plural)
nekrustamme (elative singular)
nekruistamme (elative plural)
nekruumme (illative singular)
nekruihimme (illative plural)
nekrullamme (adessive singular)
nekruillamme (adessive plural)
nekrultamme (ablative singular)
nekruiltamme (ablative plural)
nekrullemme (allative singular)
nekruillemme (allative plural)
nekrunamme (essive singular)
nekruinamme (essive plural)
nekruksemme (singular translative)
nekruiksemme (plural translative)
nekruttamme (abessive singular)
nekruittamme (abessive plural)
nekruinemme (comitative plural)
nekrunne (nominative singular)
nekrunne (nominative plural)
nekrunne (accusative nominative singular)
nekrunne (accusative nominative plural)
nekrunne (accusative genitive singular)
nekrunne (accusative genitive plural)
nekrunne (genitive singular)
nekrujenne (genitive plural)
nekruanne (partitive singular)
nekrujanne (partitive plural)
nekrussanne (inessive singular)
nekruissanne (inessive plural)
nekrustanne (elative singular)
nekruistanne (elative plural)
nekruunne (illative singular)
nekruihinne (illative plural)
nekrullanne (adessive singular)
nekruillanne (adessive plural)
nekrultanne (ablative singular)
nekruiltanne (ablative plural)
nekrullenne (allative singular)
nekruillenne (allative plural)
nekrunanne (essive singular)
nekruinanne (essive plural)
nekruksenne (singular translative)
nekruiksenne (plural translative)
nekruttanne (abessive singular)
nekruittanne (abessive plural)
nekruinenne (comitative plural)
nekrunsa (nominative singular)
nekrunsa (nominative plural)
nekrunsa (accusative nominative singular)
nekrunsa (accusative nominative plural)
nekrunsa (accusative genitive singular)
nekrunsa (accusative genitive plural)
nekrunsa (genitive singular)
nekrujensa (genitive plural)
nekruaan (partitive singular)
nekruansa (partitive singular)
nekrujaan (partitive plural)
nekrujansa (partitive plural)
nekrussaan (inessive singular)
nekrussansa (inessive singular)
nekruissaan (inessive plural)
nekruissansa (inessive plural)
nekrustaan (elative singular)
nekrustansa (elative singular)
nekruistaan (elative plural)
nekruistansa (elative plural)
nekruunsa (illative singular)
nekruihinsa (illative plural)
nekrullaan (adessive singular)
nekrullansa (adessive singular)
nekruillaan (adessive plural)
nekruillansa (adessive plural)
nekrultaan (ablative singular)
nekrultansa (ablative singular)
nekruiltaan (ablative plural)
nekruiltansa (ablative plural)
nekrulleen (allative singular)
nekrullensa (allative singular)
nekruilleen (allative plural)
nekruillensa (allative plural)
nekrunaan (essive singular)
nekrunansa (essive singular)
nekruinaan (essive plural)
nekruinansa (essive plural)
nekrukseen (singular translative)
nekruksensa (singular translative)
nekruikseen (plural translative)
nekruiksensa (plural translative)
nekruttaan (abessive singular)
nekruttansa (abessive singular)
nekruittaan (abessive plural)
nekruittansa (abessive plural)
nekruineen (comitative plural)
nekruinensa (comitative plural)


neekeri

neekeri (nominative singular)
neekerit (nominative plural)
neekeri (accusative nominative singular)
neekerit (accusative nominative plural)
neekerin (accusative genitive singular)
neekerit (accusative genitive plural)
neekerin (genitive singular)
neekerien (genitive plural)
neekereiden (genitive plural)
neekereitten (genitive plural)
neekeriä (partitive singular)
neekereitä (partitive plural)
neekerejä (partitive plural)
neekerissä (inessive singular)
neekereissä (inessive plural)
neekeristä (elative singular)
neekereistä (elative plural)
neekeriin (illative singular)
neekereihin (illative plural)
neekerillä (adessive singular)
neekereillä (adessive plural)
neekeriltä (ablative singular)
neekereiltä (ablative plural)
neekerille (allative singular)
neekereille (allative plural)
neekerinä (essive singular)
neekereinä (essive plural)
neekeriksi (singular translative)
neekereiksi (plural translative)
neekerittä (abessive singular)
neekereittä (abessive plural)
neekerein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
neekerini (nominative singular)
neekerini (nominative plural)
neekerini (accusative nominative singular)
neekerini (accusative nominative plural)
neekerini (accusative genitive singular)
neekerini (accusative genitive plural)
neekerini (genitive singular)
neekerieni (genitive plural)
neekereideni (genitive plural)
neekereitteni (genitive plural)
neekeriäni (partitive singular)
neekereitäni (partitive plural)
neekerejäni (partitive plural)
neekerissäni (inessive singular)
neekereissäni (inessive plural)
neekeristäni (elative singular)
neekereistäni (elative plural)
neekeriini (illative singular)
neekereihini (illative plural)
neekerilläni (adessive singular)
neekereilläni (adessive plural)
neekeriltäni (ablative singular)
neekereiltäni (ablative plural)
neekerilleni (allative singular)
neekereilleni (allative plural)
neekerinäni (essive singular)
neekereinäni (essive plural)
neekerikseni (singular translative)
neekereikseni (plural translative)
neekerittäni (abessive singular)
neekereittäni (abessive plural)
neekereineni (comitative plural)
neekerisi (nominative singular)
neekerisi (nominative plural)
neekerisi (accusative nominative singular)
neekerisi (accusative nominative plural)
neekerisi (accusative genitive singular)
neekerisi (accusative genitive plural)
neekerisi (genitive singular)
neekeriesi (genitive plural)
neekereidesi (genitive plural)
neekereittesi (genitive plural)
neekeriäsi (partitive singular)
neekereitäsi (partitive plural)
neekerejäsi (partitive plural)
neekerissäsi (inessive singular)
neekereissäsi (inessive plural)
neekeristäsi (elative singular)
neekereistäsi (elative plural)
neekeriisi (illative singular)
neekereihisi (illative plural)
neekerilläsi (adessive singular)
neekereilläsi (adessive plural)
neekeriltäsi (ablative singular)
neekereiltäsi (ablative plural)
neekerillesi (allative singular)
neekereillesi (allative plural)
neekerinäsi (essive singular)
neekereinäsi (essive plural)
neekeriksesi (singular translative)
neekereiksesi (plural translative)
neekerittäsi (abessive singular)
neekereittäsi (abessive plural)
neekereinesi (comitative plural)
neekerimme (nominative singular)
neekerimme (nominative plural)
neekerimme (accusative nominative singular)
neekerimme (accusative nominative plural)
neekerimme (accusative genitive singular)
neekerimme (accusative genitive plural)
neekerimme (genitive singular)
neekeriemme (genitive plural)
neekereidemme (genitive plural)
neekereittemme (genitive plural)
neekeriämme (partitive singular)
neekereitämme (partitive plural)
neekerejämme (partitive plural)
neekerissämme (inessive singular)
neekereissämme (inessive plural)
neekeristämme (elative singular)
neekereistämme (elative plural)
neekeriimme (illative singular)
neekereihimme (illative plural)
neekerillämme (adessive singular)
neekereillämme (adessive plural)
neekeriltämme (ablative singular)
neekereiltämme (ablative plural)
neekerillemme (allative singular)
neekereillemme (allative plural)
neekerinämme (essive singular)
neekereinämme (essive plural)
neekeriksemme (singular translative)
neekereiksemme (plural translative)
neekerittämme (abessive singular)
neekereittämme (abessive plural)
neekereinemme (comitative plural)
neekerinne (nominative singular)
neekerinne (nominative plural)
neekerinne (accusative nominative singular)
neekerinne (accusative nominative plural)
neekerinne (accusative genitive singular)
neekerinne (accusative genitive plural)
neekerinne (genitive singular)
neekerienne (genitive plural)
neekereidenne (genitive plural)
neekereittenne (genitive plural)
neekeriänne (partitive singular)
neekereitänne (partitive plural)
neekerejänne (partitive plural)
neekerissänne (inessive singular)
neekereissänne (inessive plural)
neekeristänne (elative singular)
neekereistänne (elative plural)
neekeriinne (illative singular)
neekereihinne (illative plural)
neekerillänne (adessive singular)
neekereillänne (adessive plural)
neekeriltänne (ablative singular)
neekereiltänne (ablative plural)
neekerillenne (allative singular)
neekereillenne (allative plural)
neekerinänne (essive singular)
neekereinänne (essive plural)
neekeriksenne (singular translative)
neekereiksenne (plural translative)
neekerittänne (abessive singular)
neekereittänne (abessive plural)
neekereinenne (comitative plural)
neekerinsä (nominative singular)
neekerinsä (nominative plural)
neekerinsä (accusative nominative singular)
neekerinsä (accusative nominative plural)
neekerinsä (accusative genitive singular)
neekerinsä (accusative genitive plural)
neekerinsä (genitive singular)
neekeriensä (genitive plural)
neekereidensä (genitive plural)
neekereittensä (genitive plural)
neekeriään (partitive singular)
neekeriänsä (partitive singular)
neekereitään (partitive plural)
neekerejään (partitive plural)
neekereitänsä (partitive plural)
neekerejänsä (partitive plural)
neekerissään (inessive singular)
neekerissänsä (inessive singular)
neekereissään (inessive plural)
neekereissänsä (inessive plural)
neekeristään (elative singular)
neekeristänsä (elative singular)
neekereistään (elative plural)
neekereistänsä (elative plural)
neekeriinsä (illative singular)
neekereihinsä (illative plural)
neekerillään (adessive singular)
neekerillänsä (adessive singular)
neekereillään (adessive plural)
neekereillänsä (adessive plural)
neekeriltään (ablative singular)
neekeriltänsä (ablative singular)
neekereiltään (ablative plural)
neekereiltänsä (ablative plural)
neekerilleen (allative singular)
neekerillensä (allative singular)
neekereilleen (allative plural)
neekereillensä (allative plural)
neekerinään (essive singular)
neekerinänsä (essive singular)
neekereinään (essive plural)
neekereinänsä (essive plural)
neekerikseen (singular translative)
neekeriksensä (singular translative)
neekereikseen (plural translative)
neekereiksensä (plural translative)
neekerittään (abessive singular)
neekerittänsä (abessive singular)
neekereittään (abessive plural)
neekereittänsä (abessive plural)
neekereineen (comitative plural)
neekereinensä (comitative plural)

Until the second half of the 19th century, this was a direct loan of Swedish neger without adaptation to Finnish phonology, at least in writing, which rarely happens in Finnish. Nevertheless, the form neekeri was no doubt almost immediately used in speaking, long before it was used in writing since Finnish seldom differentiates between voiced and unvoiced plosives and since an /i/ is usually suffixed to foreign words ending in a consonant. The Swedish word came from French nègre.

(offensive, ethnic slur) nigger (person with dark brown skin)


Fritz

From German Fritz, pet form of Friedrich (“Frederick”).

Someone sent up a shout and word came that oil had begun to show on the water—that meant one less submarine afloat! Again the roar of guns—again the shout! Two Fritzes sunk. . . !

1918, Elaine Sterne, Over the Seas for Uncle Sam:

(UK, offensive, ethnic slur) A German person, usually male.


Sambo

(derogatory) A black person, especially one who is accommodating or servile towards whites; an Uncle Tom.

(offensive, obsolete) A person of three quarters African descent and one quarter Caucasian descent.


Sambo

A nickname from the given name Samantha.


greenhorn

From Middle English grene horn, which is attested for “horn of a recently killed animal” and as the name of a horse. It may also have been used of young horned animals. In all cases “green” refers to the idea of “fresh, young, recent”, taken from plants and used in Middle English for all kinds of things irrespective of their colour, e.g. wounds, leather, fish, cheese (see green cheese). Figurative use for people dates from the 17th century. Compare semantically German Grünschnabel (literally “green-beak”).

She lives in New Bedford, and her dad's not around much and her mum calls her boyfriend a Portagee, a fuckin' greenhorn,

1993, Common Lives, Lesbian Lives- Issues 47-49, page 37:

(chiefly Massachusetts, ethnic slur, offensive) A Portuguese person.


Punic

en-adj

Punic (comparative more Punic, superlative most Punic)

more Punic (comparative)
most Punic (superlative)

From Latin Pūnicus, variant of Poenicus, from Poenus + -icus, from Ancient Greek Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 (po-ni-ki-jo) under influence from φοινός (phoinós, “crimson red”) owing to its relation to Tyrian purple, apparently from or cognate with Egyptian fnḫw (“Asiatics, Semites”), f:n:x-w-V12:Z2. Equivalent to a modified Phoenician + -ic.

(figurative, ethnic slur) Perfidious, treacherous, faithless.


chee chee

en-noun

chee chee (countable and uncountable, plural chee chees)

tlb

(UK, slang, archaic, offensive, 19th century)

Hobson-Jobson (see References) stated that the word is "said to be taken from chi (fie!), a common native (South Indian) interjection of remonstrance or reproof, supposed to be much used by the class in question. The term is, however, perhaps also a kind of onomatopoeia, indicating the mincing pronunciation which often characterises them." Hotten stated in his 1870 The Slang Dictionary "it takes its origin from a very common expression of these half-caste females, "CHEE-CHEE," equivalent to our "Oh, fie! - Nonsense! - For shame!" Merriam-Webster (see References) states "probably from Hindi chī-chī fie!, literally, dirt".

Pretty little Looking-Glasses, / Good and cheap for Chee-chee Misses.

Chee-chees, blacky-whites, half castes, Anglo-Indians. Midnight's orphans. The Brits hated us for giving human form to their rapacious colonial lust.

2021, Robyn Andrews, Merin Simi Raj, Anglo-Indian Identity, page 401:

(countable, ethnic slur) A mixed-race person of British and Eurasian origin and in particular of Anglo-Indian descent.


peckerwood

Inversion of woodpecker. Application to white people is due to the perception that the woodpecker is a symbol of whites, whereas the crow or blackbird is a symbol of blacks.

All the time I was stretched out on the infirmary cot I kept looking at the blank walls and seeing the mean, murdering faces of those Southern peckerwoods when they went after Big Six and the others with their knives.

1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 16:

Just as prejudiced as a Mississippi peckerwood when it comes to colored people.

1967, John Oliver Killens, 'Sippi, New York: Trident Press, →LCCN, →OL, page 50:

(US, offensive, slang, ethnic slur) A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.


yarpie

From Afrikaans japie, short for plaasjapie (“farm-boy”), referring to any person who grew up on a farm and is unfamiliar with city life, and hence naive and unsophisticated.

(South Africa, derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) A white South African man.


Chen

From Mandarin 陳／陈 (Chén). Doublet of Tan, Chan, and Tran.

(US, ethnic slur, offensive) A Chinese person whose name is not known to the speaker.


raton

fr-noun

raton m (plural ratons, feminine ratonne)

The same as etymology 1, influenced by Spanish ratón.

Quel bavardage : liberté, égalité, fraternité, amour, honneur, patrie, que sais-je ? Cela ne nous empêchait pas de tenir en même temps des discours racistes, sale nègre, sale juif, sale raton.

1961, Jean-Paul Sartre, Préface des Les Damnés de la Terre (Frantz Fanon):

What gibberish: liberty, fairness, brotherhood, amity, honor, fatherland, what do I know? This doesn't stop us from holding at the same time racist discourses, foul black, foul jew, vile person of Arab or Algerian descent.

(derogatory, ethnic slur, vulgar) someone of Arab or Algerian descent


choco

nl-noun

choco m (plural choco's, diminutive chocootje n)

choco's (plural)
chocootje (diminutive neuter)

Shortenings of compounds with chocolade (“chocolate”).

(Belgium, offensive, ethnic slur) Term of abuse for a person of black-African descent.


trailer park trash

I didn't wear my “Trailer Park Trash” T-shirt that day.

1996, Annalee Newitz, White Trash: Race and Class in America:

I swear, this whole thing sounds like we're talking about some hillbilly trailer park trash.

Eric's remark about “trailer park trash” is strictly his. I have some very good friends who live in trailers and they are not trash.

2004, Sam Warren, Tales from the Tijuana Jails II:

(US, idiomatic, derogatory) Alternative form of trailer trash


gippo

en-noun

gippo (countable and uncountable, plural gippos or gippoes)

→ Swedish: jippo

An alteration of gypsy, which is in turn an alteration of Egyptian.


hick

(derogatory) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.


jungle bunny

Originally US English, 1950s. From jungle (“referring to the alleged origins of black people in the African jungles”) + bunny.

Merry Christmas to all the little jungle-bunnies. — From momma jungle bunny.

1952 December 18, The South Side Times, Fort Wayne, Indiana, page 8, column 6:

"[W]e are concerned that outright harassment such as being called nigger, jungle bunny, porch monkey, boy, son, etc., is occurring entirely too much."

1983 January 14, “Racial incidents, declining sales sour Volkswagen dream”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, page 6:

He doesn't say Judge Brown's last name, telling me Brown's just another jungle bunny far as he's concerned, robe or no robe.

2007, Ron Liebman, Death by Rodrigo, page 90:

(US, UK, ethnic slur, derogatory) A black person.


pepsi

(slang, ethnic slur) Alternative form of Pepsi (“person from Quebec”)


jap

en-verb

jap (third-person singular simple present japs, present participle japping, simple past and past participle japped)

japs (present singular third-person)
japping (participle present)
japped (participle past)
japped (past)

Shortening of Japanese, in reference to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

(Canada, US, ethnic slur, slang, transitive) To carry out a sneak attack upon (something or somebody).


niggerball

en-noun

niggerball (countable and uncountable, plural niggerballs)

It's easy to see how Amerika's so easily turning into a police state, give the unwashed masses their television and some niggerball and they'll ignore the fact that they're slaves.

2002, Lieberal Death, “Your TV viewing for This Evening”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

[…] two-hundred dollar tennis shoes named after some niggerball player […]

2004, H. A. Covington, A Distant Thunder:

(uncountable, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) The sport of basketball.


shoneen

Borrowed from Irish Seoinín (“Johnny”), from Seán (“John, John Bull”) + -ín (diminutive suffix).

Good Father John O'Hart
In penal days rode out
To a shoneen who had free lands
And his own snipe and trout.

1889, W B Yeats, The Ballad of Father O'Hart:

So then the citizens begin talking about the Irish language and the corporation meeting and all to that and the shoneens that can’t speak their own language

(Ireland, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Irish person considered excessively Anglophile, an Irish person who acts English or desires to be part of English society.


sheeny

Shylock chimes with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the queen’s leech Lopez, his jew’s heart being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive.

1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

"I've told you before now not to push that long, sheeny beak of yours into my affairs."

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

One time in Humboldt Park Leo "Bow" Gisensohn, our leader, didn't like the way a cop down by the lake called him "sheeny."

1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 6:

Max Baer ain't no Jew.
Sure he is. Everybody knows that. Sheeny to the core.

2005, “Creed, OK”, in Carnivàle, episode 17:


pollywog

(New Zealand, slang, ethnic slur, offensive) A person of Polynesian (usually Samoan) descent.


wetback

1920
Operation Wetback
Rio Grande
wetback (slur)

First used in the 1920s from the presumed effects of swimming or wading across the Rio Grande. Used by the U.S. Government in 1954 with Operation Wetback.

1920, Temporary admission of illiterate Mexican laborers: Hearings before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, House of Representatives, 66th Congress, 2nd Session, p. 141,
Mr. HUDSPETH. […] I stood here and did all in my power to keep the “wetback” […] from coming across. And I stand here to-day asking for that.
The CHAIRMAN. […] What is a “wetback”?
Mr. HUDSPETH. You have heard a “wetback” described; he is a fellow that crosses the river surreptitiously.

The charges against the U.S. had cited cases of peonage and labor under forced contracts in Maine, Connecticut, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia and California. They had revealed that thousands of “wetbacks” (i.e., Mexican laborers who wade the Rio Grande in search of work in the U.S.) lived in squalor and poverty, sometimes were paid as little as $8 a week.

1950 March 27, “United Nations: Objectivity”, in Time:

He went through a couple of bottles of wine and made a speech denouncing wetbacks and Asian immigrants.

1997, Saul Bellow, The Actual, New York: Viking, page 12:

A successful wetback, the limo driver was thinking—that was his assessment of his Mexican-American passenger.

2015, John Irving, chapter 2, in Avenue of Mysteries, Canada: Knopf:

United States of America
United States of America

(derogatory slang) A Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States of America from its southern border.


berdache

From French bardache, from Italian bardassa, perhaps from Arabic بَرْدَج (bardaj, “slave”). Doublet of bardash.

These culturally bound assumptions have bedevilled the entire anthropological literature on the berdache in Native American cultures, and it is because of this that I have followed the lead of Angelino and Shedd when referring to the phenomenon of the berdache-transgenderal, for as Fitzgerald (1977) points out: "A berdache . . . may be a transvestite, but a transvestite need not be a berdache; and neither need be homosexual."

1980, Kenneth E. Read, “Observations on the Current State of Anthropological Research on Homosexual Behavior”, in Other Voices: The Style of a Male Homosexual Tavern, Novato, Cali.: Chandler & Sharp Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187:

Gender is the sociocultural designation of biobehavioral and psychosocial qualities of the sexes; for example, woman (female), man (male), other(s) (e.g., berdaches²). Notions of gender are culturally specific and depend on the ways in which cultures define and differentiate human (and other) potentials and possibilities. While many people in Western society may think first of heterosexual women and men when the word "gender" is mentioned, there are more gender possibilities than just those two.

1989, Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Christine Roberts, “Sex, Sexuality, Gender, and Gender Variance”, in Sandra Morgen, editor, Gender and Anthropology: Critical Reviews for Research and Teaching, Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 439:

Male berdache have been documented in nearly 150 North American societies, while female berdache (females who take on the lifeways of males) appear in half as many groups.

2005, Michael J Horswell, Decolonizing the Sodomite, University of Texas, published 2006, page 20:

(anthropology, dated, now offensive, ethnic slur) Among Native Americans, a person who identifies with any of a variety of gender identities which are not exclusively those of their biological sex; a transgender person.

wíŋkte

Native American who identifies with a gender identity not exclusively corresponding to their biological sex — see also two-spirit


greaser

From grease + -er. Applied to mechanics because they frequently become greasy during the course of their work. Applied to toughs because they frequently greased their hair, and, like greaseball, to Italians for the same reason. Applied to Mexicans because, at the time the phrase originated, they commonly worked greasing the axles of carts.

A pair of Greasers were ahead of me, but I could see only their outlines, and they didn't seem to interfere any with the scenery.

1907, Stewart Edward White, chapter 11, in Arizona Nights:

(US, offensive, ethnic slur) A Latin American, especially a Mexican.

(US, offensive, ethnic slur) An Italian.


zot

Regretfully there is nothing that can be done about things .. just a time bomb ticking, ticking, ticking .. until one day soon, the zots will decide to take a property here, and a property there (they have after all started with vacant land and been successful), so why not progress to property?

2000 April 9, Squirrel, “SA Silence on Mugabe's actions”, in soc.culture.south-africa (Usenet):

(SA) ¶ The government has TACITLY condoned the actions of the zots by allowing them to continue their illegal occupation.
(Zimbabwe) ¶ The government condoned the illegal activities and progressed to the point where they were actively supporting it.

2000 October 29, Nude Raider, “Here are the facts...”, in soc.culture.south-africa (Usenet):

The zots will destroy the barns, the homesteads, the tractors, everything - reducing them to their component parts without the aid of explosives.

2002 July 5, Alistair, “Re: Tobacco barn and other assets- disassembly instructions”, in soc.culture.zimbabwe (Usenet):

(South Africa, Zimbabwe, ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory) A black person.


rice burner

(slang, ethnic slur, humorous) An ordinary automobile, especially a Japanese one, made to look fast or special by adding aftermarket parts.

(slang, ethnic slur, humorous) A person who drives such an automobile.


rice rocket

So called because rice is a staple food in Japan, and rockets are known for their high speed.

(slang, ethnic slur, humorous) A Japanese high-performance sport motorcycle or street-racing car.


mafioso

it-noun

mafioso m (plural mafiosi, feminine mafiosa)

(by extension, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) a Sicilian


güero

es-noun

güero m (plural güeros, feminine güera, feminine plural güeras)

güeros (plural)
güera (feminine)
güeras (feminine plural)

Ultimately from huero (“empty”), from the phrase huevo huero (“an empty egg that was lost during incubation”). The phrase huevo huero became associated with a sick person, and from this association came the association with the color white.

¿Qué onda, güero?

Señorita Hernández / ¿por qué no me pelaste? / Señorita Hernández / por el güero me dejaste

2017, “Señorita Hernández”, in Limonada Rosa, performed by Señor Kino:

Señorita Hernández / why did you ignore me? / Señorita Hernández / you left me for this whitey

(Mexico) a person with light skin and/or blond hair


nigga

From nigger, coming from dialects of the English language which are non-rhotic.

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(offensive, ethnic slur, vulgar, dated) Pronunciation spelling of nigger.


blackfellow

Coordinate term: whitefellow

"Me like my country — no much too hot, no much too cold. By and bye, white fellow come — soldier-man come. White fellow say, this our land, that our land — ALL country our land. Black fellow say no! my country no white fellow's country, and black fellow take spear.

1842 February 16, The Inquirer, Perth, page 5, column 2:

He was squatting on the ground like a blackfellow, quiet and still and cunning.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber & Faber, published 2003, page 40:

It was as if the blackfellas were their property, and the Board could do with them as they saw fit.

2000, Daryl Tonkin, Carolyn Landon, Jackson's Track: Memoir of a Dreamtime Place, page 256:

A blackfella and a whitefella are sitting at the bar. The whitefella says to the blackfella eh boss, whadya reckon?
The blackfella says since you ask, I consider it a metaphor of the historic case of the Coorong massacre of 1840.

2002, James Roberts, “At the Bar”, in Rebekah Clarkson, editor, Forked Tongues: A Delicious Anthology of Poetry and Prose, page 29:

Most police officers had no blackfella cultural background, no knowledge of Aboriginal priorities in life, yet they were the power in the town.

2007, Noel Olive, Enough is Enough: A History of the Pilbara Mob, page 212:

(Australia, now usually considered offensive, ethnic slur) A (male) Australian Aborigine.


saltine

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

Originally a US brand name in the late 1800s, presumably salt + -ine.

(Canada, US, ethnic slur) A euphemism for cracker ("white person").


crapaud

Borrowed from French crapaud (“toad”). Doublet of crappo.

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


half-breed

(of a person, derogatory) having dual heritage; having mixed racial parentage or ancestry


սոխ

sox (romanization)
սոխ (nominative singular)
սոխեր (nominative plural)
սոխի (dative singular)
սոխերի (dative plural)
սոխից (ablative singular)
սոխերից (ablative plural)
սոխով (instrumental singular)
սոխերով (instrumental plural)
սոխում (locative singular)
սոխերում (locative plural)
սոխը (definite nominative singular)
սոխն (definite nominative singular)
սոխերը (definite nominative plural)
սոխերն (definite nominative plural)
սոխին (dative definite singular)
սոխերին (dative definite plural)
սոխս (first-person nominative possessive singular)
սոխերս (first-person nominative plural possessive)
սոխիս (dative first-person possessive singular)
սոխերիս (dative first-person plural possessive)
սոխիցս (ablative first-person possessive singular)
սոխերիցս (ablative first-person plural possessive)
սոխովս (first-person instrumental possessive singular)
սոխերովս (first-person instrumental plural possessive)
սոխումս (first-person locative possessive singular)
սոխերումս (first-person locative plural possessive)
սոխդ (nominative possessive second-person singular)
սոխերդ (nominative plural possessive second-person)
սոխիդ (dative possessive second-person singular)
սոխերիդ (dative plural possessive second-person)
սոխիցդ (ablative possessive second-person singular)
սոխերիցդ (ablative plural possessive second-person)
սոխովդ (instrumental possessive second-person singular)
սոխերովդ (instrumental plural possessive second-person)
սոխումդ (locative possessive second-person singular)
սոխերումդ (locative plural possessive second-person)

hy-decl-noun

սոխերը/սոխերն

desctree

→ Georgian: სოხვი (soxvi, “spring onion”), სოხი (soxi)
→ Mingrelian: სორხი (sorxi), სოხი (soxi)
→ Svan: სოხ (sox)


boong

Suggested sources are
* Malay bung (“brother”),
* Indonesian dialectal bung (“brother”)
* A New Guinea native language
* An Aboriginal Australian language.
Previously the word Binghi was used widely in similar fashion to the present-day use of the term Negro for peoples of African ancestry; see titles from this booklist and also writings of Xavier Herbert (e.g. in Capricornia), for example.

I heard Bruce tell one of the drinkers he'd bought a place in Queensland where you could ‘still call a Boong a Boong’.

1988, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, page 92:

‘[…]I quit the feds because I didn't want to be a showpiece boong cop.’

2010, Peter Temple, The Broken Shore, page 82:

“Yeah,” he said, “them boongs are a useless lot. The sooner they all die off, the better.”
“And why is that?” Bill asked.
“The Abos are nothing but a pack of boozers. All they wanna' do is get pissed.” The man glared at his beer. “Useless, they are.”

2011, Linda Lee Rathbun, Tjuringa, unnumbered page:

(Australia, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.


Bushman

(now sometimes offensive, ethnic slur) A member of one of the foraging ethnic groups native to southwestern Africa, mostly the Kalahari.


snow-white

From Middle English snow whit, snowe-white, snouwite, snawhwit, from Old English snāwhwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *snaiwhwīt, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwahwītaz; equivalent to snow + white. Cognate with Dutch sneeuwwit (“snow-white”), German schneeweiß (“snow-white”), Swedish snövit (“snow-white”).

(ethnic slur, offensive, slang) A Caucasian person, especially a woman.


nigger in the woodpile

en-noun

nigger in the woodpile (plural niggers in the woodpile or niggers in woodpiles)

niggers in the woodpile (plural)
niggers in woodpiles (plural)

Democra s^([sic]) placed no nigger in the woodpile—the imputation came with a bad grace from the gentleman from Kosciusko.

1858 December 20, “The Huntington and Whitley Case”, in The Legislative Sentinel, volume I, number 14, page 137:

(Bus traffic in the London area fell 33 per cent, although the total for public transport increased by 8 per cent; but private car journeys, the nigger in the public transport woodpile, went up 78 per cent in the decade).

1964 September, “News: BR role in London traffic patterns”, in Modern Railways, page 200:

(offensive, ethnic slur, dated) A hidden motive, influence or factor; a concealed (potential) snag; something suspicious.


каша

Sometimes compared with Skolt Sami kašš (“whore, prostitute”). In this case, may be related to ка̄ккш (kākkš, “bitch (female dog)”). May also be related to каршар (karšar, “Russian female”) (obsolete).

(obsolete, offensive, ethnic slur) Russki, Russkie (Russian person)


жид

ru-noun+

жид • (žid) m anim (genitive жида́, nominative plural жиды́, genitive plural жидо́в, feminine жидо́вка, relational adjective жидо́вский, diminutive жидо́к or жидёнок)

žid (romanization)
жида́ (genitive)
жиды́ (nominative plural)
жидо́в (genitive plural)
жидо́вка (feminine)
жидо́вский (adjective relational)
жидо́к (diminutive)
жидёнок (diminutive)
жи́д (nominative singular)
жиды́ (nominative plural)
жида́ (genitive singular)
жидо́в (genitive plural)
жиду́ (dative singular)
жида́м (dative plural)
жида́ (accusative singular)
жидо́в (accusative plural)
жидо́м (instrumental singular)
жида́ми (instrumental plural)
жиде́ (prepositional singular)
жида́х (plural prepositional)

→ Ingrian: žiidalain

Inherited from Old East Slavic жидъ (židŭ, “Jew”), from Proto-Slavic *židъ.

inh+

И е́сли в кра́не нет воды —
Во́ду вы́пили жиды́.
Евре́и, евре́и, кругом одни́ евре́и...

1968, Константин Беляев [Konstantin Beljajev], Куплеты про евреев:

If there's no water in the tap,
The water was drunken by kikes.
Jews, Jews, everywhere only Jews...


Turčin

Tùrčīn (canonical masculine)
Ту̀рчӣн (Cyrillic)
Tùrčīn (nominative singular)
Tȗrci (nominative plural)
Turčína (genitive singular)
Tȕrākā (genitive plural)
Turčinu (dative singular)
Turcima (dative plural)
Turčina (accusative singular)
Turke (accusative plural)
Turčine (singular vocative)
Turci (plural vocative)
Turčinu (locative singular)
Turcima (locative plural)
Turčinom (instrumental singular)
Turcima (instrumental plural)

(derogatory, ethnic slur) a Muslim, especially one from the Balkans, such as a Bosniak


nicka

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


Турчин

Ту̀рчӣн (canonical masculine)
Tùrčīn (romanization)
Ту̀рчӣн (nominative singular)
Ту̑рци (nominative plural)
Турчи́на (genitive singular)
Ту̏ра̄ка̄ (genitive plural)
Турчину (dative singular)
Турцима (dative plural)
Турчина (accusative singular)
Турке (accusative plural)
Турчине (singular vocative)
Турци (plural vocative)
Турчину (locative singular)
Турцима (locative plural)
Турчином (instrumental singular)
Турцима (instrumental plural)

(derogatory, ethnic slur) a Muslim from the Balkans, especially a Bosniak


Plastic Paddy

From the sense of plastic as fake, ersatz, inauthentic, etc. and Paddy (“Patrick”) as a generic name for any Irish man.

(derogatory, ethnic slur) An Irish person considered to be inauthentically Irish, especially (UK) recent Irish arrivals to London.


guiri

Borrowed from Basque giristino, the Basque adaptation of the Spanish cristino, the term for the liberal forces in the Spanish Carlist Wars, after the then Queen Cristina.

Las políticas de la vivienda, con carta blanca para la especulación y el gangsterismo inmobiliario, y la invasión guiri, como Daenerys a lomos de Drogon, son armas de destrucción masiva […]

2019 May 16, Àlex Montoya, “'City for Sale': alerta turista en Barcelona”, in El Mundo:

Housing politics, with a carte blanche for speculation, real estate gangsterism and the guiri invasion, like Daenerys riding the back of Drogon, are weapons of mass destruction […]

(Spain, colloquial, ethnic slur) A pale-skinned English or Germanic tourist.


холок

ru-noun+

холо́к • (xolók) m anim (genitive холка́, nominative plural холки́, genitive plural холко́в)

холо́к (canonical)
xolók (romanization)
холка́ (genitive)
холки́ (nominative plural)
холко́в (genitive plural)
холо́к (nominative singular)
холки́ (nominative plural)
холка́ (genitive singular)
холко́в (genitive plural)
холку́ (dative singular)
холка́м (dative plural)
холка́ (accusative singular)
холко́в (accusative plural)
холко́м (instrumental singular)
холка́ми (instrumental plural)
холке́ (prepositional singular)
холка́х (plural prepositional)

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Chechen


schvartze

(chiefly US, offensive, ethnic slur) Alternative form of shvartze


tibla

head

tibla (genitive tibla, partitive tiblat)

tibla (genitive)
tiblat (partitive)
tibla (nominative singular)
tiblad (nominative plural)
tibla (accusative nominative singular)
tiblad (accusative nominative plural)
tibla (accusative genitive singular)
tiblad (accusative genitive plural)
tibla (genitive singular)
tiblade (genitive plural)
tiblat (partitive singular)
tiblasid (partitive plural)
tiblasse (illative singular)
tibladesse (illative plural)
tiblas (inessive singular)
tiblades (inessive plural)
tiblast (elative singular)
tibladest (elative plural)
tiblale (allative singular)
tibladele (allative plural)
tiblal (adessive singular)
tibladel (adessive plural)
tiblalt (ablative singular)
tibladelt (ablative plural)
tiblaks (singular translative)
tibladeks (plural translative)
tiblani (singular terminative)
tibladeni (plural terminative)
tiblana (essive singular)
tibladena (essive plural)
tiblata (abessive singular)
tibladeta (abessive plural)
tiblaga (comitative singular)
tibladega (comitative plural)

Most likely from Russian витебля́нин (vitebljánin, “citizen of Vitebsk”), because in the 19th century many Belarusians and Russians went to Estonia from the city.
Less likely from Russian ты бля (ty blja), a rude and vulgar form of address.
Was already in common use at the time of the Estonian War of Independence (1918-20) to denote non-local Russians.

der

slur used by Russians in Estonia towards Estonian people

(offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) Russian, Russki (ethnic Russian).


põder

põdra (genitive)
põtra (partitive)
põder (nominative singular)
põdrad (nominative plural)
põder (accusative nominative singular)
põdrad (accusative nominative plural)
põdra (accusative genitive singular)
põdrad (accusative genitive plural)
põdra (genitive singular)
põtrade (genitive plural)
põtra (partitive singular)
põtru (partitive plural)
põtrasid (partitive plural)
põtra (illative singular)
põdrasse (illative singular)
põtradesse (illative plural)
põdrusse (illative plural)
põdras (inessive singular)
põtrades (inessive plural)
põdrus (inessive plural)
põdrast (elative singular)
põtradest (elative plural)
põdrust (elative plural)
põdrale (allative singular)
põtradele (allative plural)
põdrule (allative plural)
põdral (adessive singular)
põtradel (adessive plural)
põdrul (adessive plural)
põdralt (ablative singular)
põtradelt (ablative plural)
põdrult (ablative plural)
põdraks (singular translative)
põtradeks (plural translative)
põdruks (plural translative)
põdrani (singular terminative)
põtradeni (plural terminative)
põdrana (essive singular)
põtradena (essive plural)
põdrata (abessive singular)
põtradeta (abessive plural)
põdraga (comitative singular)
põtradega (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *pëtra (“deer; reindeer”), probably from Proto-Baltic. Cognates include Finnish peura (“wild reindeer”), Votic põdra, Livonian põ’ddõr(z), Livvi pedru, Ludian and Veps pedr (“deer”).


ryssä

ryssä (nominative singular)
ryssät (nominative plural)
ryssä (accusative nominative singular)
ryssät (accusative nominative plural)
ryssän (accusative genitive singular)
ryssät (accusative genitive plural)
ryssän (genitive singular)
ryssien (genitive plural)
ryssäin (genitive plural rare)
ryssää (partitive singular)
ryssiä (partitive plural)
ryssässä (inessive singular)
ryssissä (inessive plural)
ryssästä (elative singular)
ryssistä (elative plural)
ryssään (illative singular)
ryssiin (illative plural)
ryssällä (adessive singular)
ryssillä (adessive plural)
ryssältä (ablative singular)
ryssiltä (ablative plural)
ryssälle (allative singular)
ryssille (allative plural)
ryssänä (essive singular)
ryssinä (essive plural)
ryssäksi (singular translative)
ryssiksi (plural translative)
ryssättä (abessive singular)
ryssittä (abessive plural)
ryssin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
ryssäni (nominative singular)
ryssäni (nominative plural)
ryssäni (accusative nominative singular)
ryssäni (accusative nominative plural)
ryssäni (accusative genitive singular)
ryssäni (accusative genitive plural)
ryssäni (genitive singular)
ryssieni (genitive plural)
ryssäini (genitive plural rare)
ryssääni (partitive singular)
ryssiäni (partitive plural)
ryssässäni (inessive singular)
ryssissäni (inessive plural)
ryssästäni (elative singular)
ryssistäni (elative plural)
ryssääni (illative singular)
ryssiini (illative plural)
ryssälläni (adessive singular)
ryssilläni (adessive plural)
ryssältäni (ablative singular)
ryssiltäni (ablative plural)
ryssälleni (allative singular)
ryssilleni (allative plural)
ryssänäni (essive singular)
ryssinäni (essive plural)
ryssäkseni (singular translative)
ryssikseni (plural translative)
ryssättäni (abessive singular)
ryssittäni (abessive plural)
ryssineni (comitative plural)
ryssäsi (nominative singular)
ryssäsi (nominative plural)
ryssäsi (accusative nominative singular)
ryssäsi (accusative nominative plural)
ryssäsi (accusative genitive singular)
ryssäsi (accusative genitive plural)
ryssäsi (genitive singular)
ryssiesi (genitive plural)
ryssäisi (genitive plural rare)
ryssääsi (partitive singular)
ryssiäsi (partitive plural)
ryssässäsi (inessive singular)
ryssissäsi (inessive plural)
ryssästäsi (elative singular)
ryssistäsi (elative plural)
ryssääsi (illative singular)
ryssiisi (illative plural)
ryssälläsi (adessive singular)
ryssilläsi (adessive plural)
ryssältäsi (ablative singular)
ryssiltäsi (ablative plural)
ryssällesi (allative singular)
ryssillesi (allative plural)
ryssänäsi (essive singular)
ryssinäsi (essive plural)
ryssäksesi (singular translative)
ryssiksesi (plural translative)
ryssättäsi (abessive singular)
ryssittäsi (abessive plural)
ryssinesi (comitative plural)
ryssämme (nominative singular)
ryssämme (nominative plural)
ryssämme (accusative nominative singular)
ryssämme (accusative nominative plural)
ryssämme (accusative genitive singular)
ryssämme (accusative genitive plural)
ryssämme (genitive singular)
ryssiemme (genitive plural)
ryssäimme (genitive plural rare)
ryssäämme (partitive singular)
ryssiämme (partitive plural)
ryssässämme (inessive singular)
ryssissämme (inessive plural)
ryssästämme (elative singular)
ryssistämme (elative plural)
ryssäämme (illative singular)
ryssiimme (illative plural)
ryssällämme (adessive singular)
ryssillämme (adessive plural)
ryssältämme (ablative singular)
ryssiltämme (ablative plural)
ryssällemme (allative singular)
ryssillemme (allative plural)
ryssänämme (essive singular)
ryssinämme (essive plural)
ryssäksemme (singular translative)
ryssiksemme (plural translative)
ryssättämme (abessive singular)
ryssittämme (abessive plural)
ryssinemme (comitative plural)
ryssänne (nominative singular)
ryssänne (nominative plural)
ryssänne (accusative nominative singular)
ryssänne (accusative nominative plural)
ryssänne (accusative genitive singular)
ryssänne (accusative genitive plural)
ryssänne (genitive singular)
ryssienne (genitive plural)
ryssäinne (genitive plural rare)
ryssäänne (partitive singular)
ryssiänne (partitive plural)
ryssässänne (inessive singular)
ryssissänne (inessive plural)
ryssästänne (elative singular)
ryssistänne (elative plural)
ryssäänne (illative singular)
ryssiinne (illative plural)
ryssällänne (adessive singular)
ryssillänne (adessive plural)
ryssältänne (ablative singular)
ryssiltänne (ablative plural)
ryssällenne (allative singular)
ryssillenne (allative plural)
ryssänänne (essive singular)
ryssinänne (essive plural)
ryssäksenne (singular translative)
ryssiksenne (plural translative)
ryssättänne (abessive singular)
ryssittänne (abessive plural)
ryssinenne (comitative plural)
ryssänsä (nominative singular)
ryssänsä (nominative plural)
ryssänsä (accusative nominative singular)
ryssänsä (accusative nominative plural)
ryssänsä (accusative genitive singular)
ryssänsä (accusative genitive plural)
ryssänsä (genitive singular)
ryssiensä (genitive plural)
ryssäinsä (genitive plural rare)
ryssäänsä (partitive singular)
ryssiään (partitive plural)
ryssiänsä (partitive plural)
ryssässään (inessive singular)
ryssässänsä (inessive singular)
ryssissään (inessive plural)
ryssissänsä (inessive plural)
ryssästään (elative singular)
ryssästänsä (elative singular)
ryssistään (elative plural)
ryssistänsä (elative plural)
ryssäänsä (illative singular)
ryssiinsä (illative plural)
ryssällään (adessive singular)
ryssällänsä (adessive singular)
ryssillään (adessive plural)
ryssillänsä (adessive plural)
ryssältään (ablative singular)
ryssältänsä (ablative singular)
ryssiltään (ablative plural)
ryssiltänsä (ablative plural)
ryssälleen (allative singular)
ryssällensä (allative singular)
ryssilleen (allative plural)
ryssillensä (allative plural)
ryssänään (essive singular)
ryssänänsä (essive singular)
ryssinään (essive plural)
ryssinänsä (essive plural)
ryssäkseen (singular translative)
ryssäksensä (singular translative)
ryssikseen (plural translative)
ryssiksensä (plural translative)
ryssättään (abessive singular)
ryssättänsä (abessive singular)
ryssittään (abessive plural)
ryssittänsä (abessive plural)
ryssineen (comitative plural)
ryssinensä (comitative plural)

Borrowed from Swedish ryss (“Russian”). See also etymology section of Ruotsi (“Sweden”) and rusi (“Rus”). For sense two, compare Serbo-Croatian Турчин (“Turk; Muslim”). Also compare Ruzzia.

Coordinate term: neukku ("Soviet citizen", mildly derogatory)

Ryssä on ryssä, vaikka voissa paistaisi. (saying)

A Russki is a Russki even if you'd fry him in butter.

(ethnic slur) Russki, Russkie (Russian person)

(dated, ethnic slur) any Orthodox person (particularly Karelians)


Pinkerton syndrome

In reference to the character Lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton in the opera Madama Butterfly (first performed in 1904) by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924).

When I’m with my white partner, I am a proponent of the ‘Pinkerton Syndrome’, a caricature not unlike the Other Asia’s mail order bride.

1996, Westerly, volume 41, Crawley, Perth, W.A.: Western Australia Westerly Centre, the University of Western Australia, →ISSN, page 70:

Like vampires, the ang moh crowd comes out at night, dressed in their best shirts and armed with plenty of tax-free Singapore dollars to woo those local darlings tragically struck down by the Pinkerton syndrome. Like the character in Madame Butterfly, they are somehow lured by the attraction of drunken voices and the possibility of a fat wallet.

2001, Neil Humphreys, Notes from an Even Smaller Island, Singapore: Times Books International, →ISBN, page 213:

The Pinkerton Syndrome, then, seems to me non-operative in American cultural masculinity at the moment. […] Pinkerton's casual imperialist hubris, an expression of first-generation Manifest Destiny complete with brass-buttoned naval uniform, has an official status that lone action heroes as implicitly populist individuals must stay well clear of. No, the condition is really much more suited to Europeans.

2006, William Beard, “M. Butterfly (1993)”, in The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg, rev. and exp. edition, Toronto, Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 346:

The home-wrecking bimbo who had succumbed to the Pinkerton Syndrome had been transformed into a 'bad girl' – a phenomenon not unfamiliar to Asian societies – and recovered for herself an empowered cultural agency.

2015, Chris Hudson, “Dangerous Sexuality in Singapore: The Sarong Party Girl”, in Adeline Koh, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, editors, Women and the Politics of Representation in Southeast Asia: Engendering Discourse in Singapore and Malaysia (Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series; 8), Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:

(chiefly Singapore, derogatory, politics, ethnic slur) The tendency of some Asians to regard Caucasians as superior or more desirable, especially where marriage or relationships are concerned.


eight-ball

en-noun

eight-ball (countable and uncountable, plural eight-balls)

When a white fellow gets in the ring with an eight ball the eight ball's got no chance. You see, 'cause they call boxing the sweet science. And that's where your colored just runs into trouble. That's just that science part.
Yeah, but Joe Louis is a big 'un.

2005, “Creed, OK”, in Carnivàle, episode 17:

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


crioulo

pt-noun

crioulo m (plural crioulos, feminine crioula, feminine plural crioulas)

crioulos (plural)
crioula (feminine)
crioulas (feminine plural)

Kabuverdianu: kriolu

→ English: crioulo, Crioulo

→ Spanish: criollo

→ English: criollo

→ French: créole

→ English: creole, Creole

Uncertain but usually associated with cria (“offspring”), criar (“to breed; to rear”). Possibly a corruption of criadouro (“breeding place”).

(Brazil, dated, usually ethnic slur) nigger; negro (a person of sub-Saharan African descent)


crioulo

pt-adj

crioulo (feminine crioula, masculine plural crioulos, feminine plural crioulas)

crioula (feminine)
crioulos (masculine plural)
crioulas (feminine plural)

(Brazil, dated, usually ethnic slur) black (of sub-Saharan African descent)


goddam

Borrowed from English goddamn, in reference to the English propensity for swearing. Originally used in the Hundred Years War.

Ah! ah! dit-il en riant, il serait digne d’un goddam, si les goddams savaient tirer si droit.

1932, Thierry Sandre, Le corsaire Pellot qui courut pour le roi, page 81:

Ah! ah! he laughed, he would be worthy of an Englishman, if the Englishmen knew how to shoot so straight.

(chiefly in the plural, ethnic slur) an English person


hrísgrjón

is-noun

hrísgrjón n (genitive singular hrísgrjóns, nominative plural hrísgrjón)

hrísgrjóns (genitive singular)
hrísgrjón (nominative plural)
hrísgrjón (indefinite nominative singular)
hrísgrjónið (definite nominative singular)
hrísgrjón (indefinite nominative plural)
hrísgrjónin (definite nominative plural)
hrísgrjón (accusative indefinite singular)
hrísgrjónið (accusative definite singular)
hrísgrjón (accusative indefinite plural)
hrísgrjónin (accusative definite plural)
hrísgrjóni (dative indefinite singular)
hrísgrjóninu (dative definite singular)
hrísgrjónum (dative indefinite plural)
hrísgrjónunum (dative definite plural)
hrísgrjóns (genitive indefinite singular)
hrísgrjónsins (definite genitive singular)
hrísgrjóna (genitive indefinite plural)
hrísgrjónanna (definite genitive plural)


grjón

grjón n (genitive singular grjóns, nominative plural grjón)

grjóns (genitive singular)
grjón (nominative plural)
grjón (indefinite nominative singular)
grjónið (definite nominative singular)
grjón (indefinite nominative plural)
grjónin (definite nominative plural)
grjón (accusative indefinite singular)
grjónið (accusative definite singular)
grjón (accusative indefinite plural)
grjónin (accusative definite plural)
grjóni (dative indefinite singular)
grjóninu (dative definite singular)
grjónum (dative indefinite plural)
grjónunum (dative definite plural)
grjóns (genitive indefinite singular)
grjónsins (definite genitive singular)
grjóna (genitive indefinite plural)
grjónanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse grjón (“groats”), from Proto-Germanic *greuna, a variant of *greutą. See also Danish gryn (“grain”) and the Swedish gryn, cognate with Middle High German grien (“gravelly sand”).

cog

(offensive, derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) an East Asian person


raghead

(slang, ethnic slur, religious slur) A Middle Easterner, Arab, Hindu, Sikh, Indian or member of any group that traditionally wears a headdress such as a turban, keffiyeh or headscarf.


Chinee

But the hands that were played / By that heathen Chinee, / And the points that he made, / Were quite frightful to see,— / Till at last he put down a right bower, / Which the same Nye had dealt unto me.

1870, Bret Harte, Plain Language from Truthful James:

We endure our abuses of orphanotrophism even when they are repulsive to the heathen Chinee.

1910 September 10, Bayard Holmes, “Orphanotrophism”, in The Lancet-clinic, volume 104, number 11, page 238:

(dated, offensive, Chinese Pidgin English, ethnic slur) A person from China.


spigger

(slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of mixed Hispanic and African-American heritage.


Angrez

From Hindustani انگریز / अंग्रेज़ (aṅgrez), from Portuguese inglês (“Englishman”). Doublet of English.

(North India, Pakistan, ethnic slur) An English person.


mayate

Borrowed from a Nahuan language; cf. Classical Nahuatl mayātl.

(US, derogatory, ethnic slur, slang) black person


支那

支那 (canonical)
支那 (canonical)
Shina (romanization)

Qin (state)
Qin Dynasty
Shina (word)
ja:支那

From Middle Chinese 支那 (MC tsye na), a phonetic transcription of Sanskrit चीन (cīna), itself likely deriving from Old Chinese 秦 (*zin), the name of the Qin Dynasty and the Qin state.

支那竹: menma

cooked bamboo sprout, a kind of ramen topping

(prewar, often considered derogatory, offensive in modern speech, ethnic slur) China

prewar; often considered derogatory; prewar; often considered derogatory

(offensive, ethnic slur) Ryukyuan people


guido

From Italian Guido, a male given name. Doublet of Guy and guy.

In a way, he looked like one of those guidos from MTV's Jersey Shore, but he resembled them only in appearance.

2013, Nathan J Morissey, 62 Hot Gay Stories:

(slang, US, ethnic slur) A stereotypical working-class or lower-class and usually urban-dwelling Italian-American male; sometimes more generally a stereotypical Italian or person of Italian descent.


Londonistan

The term “Londonistan” apparently originated with a sarcastic remark by a French intelligence officer frustrated by Britain’s failure to crack down on radical Islamists in their midst.

2017 April 6, Leela Jacinto, “Is Londonistan calling jihadists back to the fold?”, in France 24:

(informal, derogatory, ethnic slur) London, perceived as having been culturally conquered by Muslims.