"poor white trash" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "First attested in 1835.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "[1835 May 30, The London Literary Gazette; and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c.of the collected Literary Gazette […] for the year 1835, number 958, London, page 338",
          "text": "In the south, there are no servants but blacks; for the greater proportion of domestics being slaves all species of servitude whatever is looked upon as a degradation; and the slaves themselves entertain the very highest contempt for white servants, whom they designate as ‘poor white trash’.]",
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        "White person or people employed in a servile position, for example, as a butler."
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        "(US, obsolete, ethnic slur, used by black slaves) White person or people employed in a servile position, for example, as a butler."
      ],
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        "used by black slaves"
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        {
          "word": "mean white"
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        {
          "_dis1": "11 89",
          "word": "PWT"
        },
        {
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          "word": "white trash"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1991, Ted Tally, The Silence of the Lambs (motion picture), spoken by Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins)",
          "text": "Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?",
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        }
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        "White trash; poor, uneducated white person or people of low social status."
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          "slur",
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        [
          "White trash",
          "white trash"
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        "(US, modern, derogatory, ethnic slur) White trash; poor, uneducated white person or people of low social status."
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "PWT"
    },
    {
      "word": "white trash"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "First attested in 1835.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "[1835 May 30, The London Literary Gazette; and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c.of the collected Literary Gazette […] for the year 1835, number 958, London, page 338",
          "text": "In the south, there are no servants but blacks; for the greater proportion of domestics being slaves all species of servitude whatever is looked upon as a degradation; and the slaves themselves entertain the very highest contempt for white servants, whom they designate as ‘poor white trash’.]",
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      ],
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        "White person or people employed in a servile position, for example, as a butler."
      ],
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        "(US, obsolete, ethnic slur, used by black slaves) White person or people employed in a servile position, for example, as a butler."
      ],
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        "used by black slaves"
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          "text": "Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "White trash; poor, uneducated white person or people of low social status."
      ],
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        "(US, modern, derogatory, ethnic slur) White trash; poor, uneducated white person or people of low social status."
      ],
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  "word": "poor white trash"
}