Meaning

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

    a poor White person in the southern United States

  2. (broadly, derogatory)Yokel, hick, country bumpkin

  3. (US, historical, slang)Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.

  4. (US, historical, slang)A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.

  5. (UK, archaic, slur)A Roman Catholic.

    Hinterwäldler, Landei, Landpomeranze

    дереве́нщинаderevénščina, неве́ждаnevéžda, не́учnéuč

Examples

21 sentences
  1. I'm a redneck.

    Я реднек.

    ruЯ реднек.

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  2. Tom is a redneck.

    Том реднек.

    ruТом - деревенщина.

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  3. I know Tom is a redneck.

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  4. I know that Tom is a redneck.

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  5. Tom isn't a redneck.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
uneducated, unsophisticated person:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
uneducated, unsophisticated person:

Origin

Bahuvrīhi compound of red + neck. Compare rooinek. The term originally characterized farme

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

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