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noun
1.
an uneducated white farm laborer, especially from the South.
2.
a bigot or reactionary, especially from the rural working class.
adjective
3.
Also, red-necked. narrow, prejudiced, or reactionary: a redneck attitude. Synonyms: biased, narrow-minded, intolerant. Antonyms: fair-minded, open-minded, broad-minded, tolerant, unbiased, impartial.
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Redneck
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Example Sentences
- Shang has the manners and mentality of a redneck bigot, but he also has a lot of primitive charm.
- His redneck concern is that his manhood has been diminished by this cancerous attach on his reproductive gland.
- The redneck geniuses get to work building a hydropowered boat.
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Word Origin & History
redneck
"cracker," 1893; attested 1830 in more specialized sense ("This may be ascribed to the Red Necks, a name bestowed upon the Presbyterians in Fayetteville," from Ann Royall, "Southern Tour I," p.148). According to various theories, red perhaps from anger, or from pellagra, but most likely from mule farmers'
EXPANDoutdoors labor in the sun, wearing a shirt and straw hat, with the neck exposed.
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American Heritage
Cultural Dictionary
redneck definition
A slang term, usually for a rural white southerner who is politically conservative, racist, and a religious fundamentalist (see fundamentalism). This term is generally considered offensive. It originated in reference to agricultural workers, alluding to how the back of a person's neck will be burned by the sun if he works long hours in the fields.
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Slang Dictionary
redneck definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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