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{ "etymology_text": "1805–15; variant of Indian. Compare Cajun.", "forms": [ { "form": "injuns", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "injun (plural injuns)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "hyphenation": [ "in‧jun" ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "American English", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "English ethnic slurs", "parents": [ "Ethnic slurs", "Offensive terms", "Terms by usage" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Entries with translation boxes", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Terms with Finnish translations", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Demonyms", "orig": "en:Demonyms", "parents": [ "Names", "People", "All topics", "Proper nouns", "Terms by semantic function", "Human", "Fundamental", "Nouns", "Lemmas" ], "source": "w" } ], "derived": [ { "word": "honest injun" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1995, Pocahontas, spoken by John Smith:", "text": "We'll kill ourselves an injun, and maybe two or three!", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1999, “What Do You Want Me to Say?”, in Emergency & I, performed by the Dismemberment Plan:", "text": "You want a problem, well I guess we got one now / I really don't know how / There's injuns over every goddamn hill", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2024 February 2, Ellen E. Jones, “Beyond the pale: where are all the films about ‘whiteness’?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:", "text": "Instead of grudgingly admitting the “Injuns” weren’t so bad after all, it actually explores the conflicted culpability of individual white Americans.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A Native American." ], "id": "en-injun-en-noun-Mhztkmti", "links": [ [ "Native American", "Native American" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(US, slang, offensive) A Native American." ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "Injun" } ], "tags": [ "US", "offensive", "slang" ], "translations": [ { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "indianec", "sense": "slang for Native American", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "индианец" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "slang for Native American", "word": "inkkari" } ], "wikipedia": [ "en:Native American name controversy#Controversial terminology" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈɪnd͡ʒən/", "tags": [ "US" ] }, { "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-injun.wav", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d2/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-injun.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-injun.wav.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d2/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-injun.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-injun.wav.ogg" }, { "rhymes": "-ɪndʒən" } ], "word": "injun" }
{ "derived": [ { "word": "honest injun" } ], "etymology_text": "1805–15; variant of Indian. Compare Cajun.", "forms": [ { "form": "injuns", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "injun (plural injuns)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "hyphenation": [ "in‧jun" ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "American English", "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English ethnic slurs", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English offensive terms", "English slang", "English terms with quotations", "Entries with translation boxes", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Rhymes:English/ɪndʒən", "Rhymes:English/ɪndʒən/2 syllables", "Terms with Bulgarian translations", "Terms with Finnish translations", "en:Demonyms" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1995, Pocahontas, spoken by John Smith:", "text": "We'll kill ourselves an injun, and maybe two or three!", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1999, “What Do You Want Me to Say?”, in Emergency & I, performed by the Dismemberment Plan:", "text": "You want a problem, well I guess we got one now / I really don't know how / There's injuns over every goddamn hill", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2024 February 2, Ellen E. Jones, “Beyond the pale: where are all the films about ‘whiteness’?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:", "text": "Instead of grudgingly admitting the “Injuns” weren’t so bad after all, it actually explores the conflicted culpability of individual white Americans.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A Native American." ], "links": [ [ "Native American", "Native American" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(US, slang, offensive) A Native American." ], "tags": [ "US", "offensive", "slang" ], "wikipedia": [ "en:Native American name controversy#Controversial terminology" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈɪnd͡ʒən/", "tags": [ "US" ] }, { "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-injun.wav", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d2/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-injun.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-injun.wav.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d2/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-injun.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-injun.wav.ogg" }, { "rhymes": "-ɪndʒən" } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "Injun" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "bg", "lang": "Bulgarian", "roman": "indianec", "sense": "slang for Native American", "tags": [ "masculine" ], "word": "индианец" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "slang for Native American", "word": "inkkari" } ], "word": "injun" }
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