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Redneck

Gwendy
User since 2008
Posts: 253

11 Jan. 2013

Is it a peasant ? or could it be also sombody else (i heard that word in a song "no milk to day ) Thanks for answering

5 comments

  • User since 2012
    Posts: 49

    12 Jan. 2013

    Hi Gwendy ! Here is a definition from the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary :

    An uneducated working-class white person in the southern US, esp. one holding reactionary political views; gen. anyone holding reactionary political views. N. Amer. Freq. derog.

     
  • User since 2009
    Posts: 21

    14 Jan. 2013

    The Webster's New World Dictionary reads :
    (from the characteristic sunburned neck acquired in the fields by farm laborers.)
    (SLANG) : a poor, white, rural Southerner, often, specificly, one regarded as ignorant, bigoted, violent, etc.: often a derogatory term.


    And the Merriam-Webster :
    1- sometimes disparaging : a white member of the Southern rural laboring class
    2- often disparaging : a person whose behavior and opinions are similar to those attributed to rednecks.


    Both dictionaries are American but the two are different. One reads it's slang while the other doesn't. Anyway, it sounds it's not to be pronounced everywhere with anybody.
  • User since 2008
    Posts: 253

    14 Jan. 2013

    Thanks, il will be cautious, anyway, i don't think i'll have the chance of meeting one of them.
  • User since 2013
    Posts: 1

    18 Jan. 2013

    A famous redneck is Cletus Spuckler a character in the simpsons :)
  • User since 2008
    Posts: 253

    21 Jan. 2013

    Inthe Simpsons ????

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