Yid is the Yiddish word for Jew. It has its origins in the Middle High German word Jüde (the contemporary German word is Jude). The Yiddish word yidish (from Middle High German jüdisch) is an adjective derived from the noun Yid and thus means simply "Jewish". When used by non-Jews the word yid (but not Yiddish) is usually meant to be offensive. However, Yiddish speaking Jews call themselves Yidn (plural of Yid). In all-Ashkenazi contexts, the word is also frequently used to mean simply "fellow", "chap", "buddy", "mate" etc, i. ...

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Minnesotan accent, where vowels are usually elongated. Minoplis (Dominican Republic) Very dark-skinned Dominicans or all Haitians, deriving from the expression "me no, please", refering to the beg for life of a person who's going to be executed (derives probably from the English punch-line of a joke, whose origin might have been during the U.S. intervention of the D.R. in 1916-1924). Mingita  (U.K.) Lesbian Indian/Muslim young woman, used offensively. From "minge" (female pubic hair ...

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Jap or JAP is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below: Jap, Japo, Japse, someone of Japanese descent, see List_of_ethnic_slurs#J. Java Anon Proxy Jewish-American princess J.A.P., a make of motorcycle engine, also used in some cars. A maker of stationary oil engines. Journal of Applied Physics (an Ame

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Uncle Tom is a pejorative term for a black person who is perceived by other blacks to be obsequiously servile to white authority figures, or who simply are perceived as being unnecessarily accommodating of whites. The term Uncle Tom comes from the title character of white author Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, a story against slavery in which the slave Tom helps a fellow slave to escape and is brutally murdered by his master when he refuses to give her location up. It is used to denote African Ame ...

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A curry is any of a great variety of distinctively spiced dishes, best-known in Indian and Thai cuisine, but curry has been adopted into all of the mainstream cuisines of the Asia-Pacific area, from Pakistan in the west and even eventually to Japan. Along with tea, curry is one of the few dishes or drinks that is truly "pan-Asian", although its roots are from India. Curry - Curries around the world. The term curry derives from kari, a Tamil word meaning sauce and referring to various kinds of ...

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• Curry - Fresh herbs and spices
• Curry - Other
• Curry - Curry powder
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A common popular etymology claims that the word is derived from "hāʻole", literally meaning "no breath". Foreigners did not know or use the honi, a Polynesian/Hawaiian greeting by sniffing the cheeks of the face, and so they were described as "breathless". The implication is that haoles are aloof and ignorant of local ways - a common stereotype in Hawaiʻi. Linguists believe that this etymology is erroneous, however, for these reasons: There are innumerable citations fr ...

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Haole, Haole - Origins and etymology, Haole - Sources and Further Reading

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In former times, Kraut was used as a colloquial expression for tobacco. Today it's sometimes used for marijuana. Since World War II, Kraut has, in the English language, come to be used as a derogatory term for a German. This is probably based on Sauerkraut, which was very popular in German cuisine at that time. The stereotype of the sauerkraut-eating German dates back to long before this time, though, as can for example be seen in Jules Verne's depiction of the evil German industrialist Schultz as an avid sauerkraut eater in "T ...

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Kraut, Kraut - Use in Slang

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In the context of Mexican cuisine, a gringa is a mixture of spiced pork (carne al pastor), cheese, and diced pineapple sandwiched between two wheat tortillas. In some parts of Mexico such as Yucatan, a gringa is a flour tortilla taco of carne al pastor with cheese (mostly manchego, chihuahua or oaxaca cheese). The combination is heated on the comal until piping hot an ...

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Original meaning: Gringo is thought to comes from griego ("Greek"), since Greek was the proverbial example of an unintelligible language ("It's all Greek to me!"). It was applied to speakers of foreign languages, especially the English language, by the eighteenth century. (The ancient Greeks, incidentally, coined barbarian in the same spirit; the word imitates the incomprehensible babble of foreign tongues.) Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecu ...

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A recurring fake etymology for the derivation of gringo states that it originated during the Mexican-American War of 1846-48. It has been claimed that Gringo comes from "green go" and used in reference to the American soldiers and the color of their uniforms. This is an example of an invented explanation, because gringo was used in Spanish long before the war and during the Mexican-American War, the US Army did not us ...

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When used in pop culture, the term "white cracker" or "cracker" is sometimes intended to be humorous, though the distinction is not always clear. The rustic lives of crackers were the topic of the novels of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Before the Milwaukee Braves baseball team moved to Atlanta, the Atlanta minor league baseball team was known as the "Atlanta Crackers." The team existed under this name from 1901 until 1965. They were members of the Southern Association from their inception until 1961, and members of the Internation ...

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British racial term originating in the colonial period of the British Empire. It was generally used as a label for the natives of India, North Africa and the Middle East. By the 1950s it had become a pejorative term used in order to offend. The origins of the term are unclear. Most dictionaries say "wog" either possibly or likely derives from the generic term golliwog after the Golliwogg, a "grotesque" blackface minstrel doll-character from a children's book published in 1895. Various facetious explanations include the claim th ...

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Wog, Wog - As a racial epithet in British English, Wog - As a racial reference in Australian English, Wog - As a synonym for illness in Australian English, Wog - Maritime usage, Wog - As a term in Scientology

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During slavery, tomming could be a cunning subterfuge. White masters often gave well-liked and trusted slaves coveted, less physically demanding duties to perform. "Faithful" bondsmen and women also tended to be watched less closely, allowing them opportunities to escape to freedom or engage in clandestine acts of defiance. A tomming fieldhand who had been bullwhipped might set a field afire or destroy farm implements. An outwardly compliant cook whose husband or children had been sold away from her might burn down the cookhouse or exact a slow and agonizing death from her master by poisoning ...

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Uncle Tom, Uncle Tom - The Practice of Covert Resistance, Uncle Tom - Other terms with the same meaning

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It is believed that the term "hillbilly" originally referred to Scots-Irish immigrants of mainly Presbyterian origin, who brought their cultural traditions with them when they moved to the United States. Many of their stories, songs and ballads dealt with the history of their Ulster and Lowland Scot homelands, especially relating the tale of the Protestant King William III, Prince of Orange, who defeated the Roman Catholic King James I ...

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Hillbilly, Hillbilly - History, Hillbilly - The hillbilly stereotype, Hillbilly - Modern usage, Hillbilly - Hillbillys in advertising, Hillbilly - Notable Hillbillys, Hillbilly - In fiction

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Wog is also a slang term in Australian English, denoting non-Anglo-Celtic Australians, usually people of Southern European Mediterranean or Middle Eastern ancestries. Historically, the term included Slavic peoples from the Balkans (Croats, Serbs, FYROMs, ect.). Recently, it has come to be applied to people of Middle Eastern or Mediterranean ancestry, such as Arabs, Latins, Greeks, Albanians, Roma, Maltese, Turks, and Iranians. It may occasionally extend to people from other parts of Europe. Migrants from the Netherlands sometimes refer to themselves as clog wog ...

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There are various theories about the origin of the term "cracker." The term has been traced to the 1760s, when it was used by the Earl of Dartmouth to refer to frontiersmen who were "great boasters." It may be derived from the Gaelic "craic," meaning "entertaining conversation." A folk etymology claims the term cracker originated from piney-woods Georgia and Florida pastoral yeomen's use of whips to drive cattle. The word then came to be associated ...

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List of terms for multiraciality - Latin American/Spanish and Portuguese language. Pardo: (Brazilian) Black and White. Blatino (United States: black/Latino) Caboclo (Brazil: white/Amerindian) Cafuzo (Brazil: black/Amerindian) Calpamulato Castizo (Latin America: white/Mestizo) Chamiso Chino (Latin America: Zambo/black) Cholo Lobo (Latin America: black/Amerindian; synonym for Zambo) Tresalbo Zambaigo Za ...

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List of terms for multiraciality, List of terms for multiraciality - General, List of terms for multiraciality - Non-English language, List of terms for multiraciality - Specific, List of terms for multiraciality - Latin American/Spanish and Portuguese language, List of terms for multiraciality - Amerindian, List of terms for multiraciality - Asian, List of terms for multiraciality - Africa/African-American/Black, List of terms for multiraciality - Other, List of terms for multiraciality - Specific multiracial ethnic groups, List of terms for multiraciality - Neologism, List of terms for multiraciality - Caste System of Colonial Latin America

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On August 20, 2000, Internet gossip columnist Matt Drudge reported that Donna Brazile, Al Gore's campaign manager, called George W. Bush a "white cracker" while talking to New York Post gossip columnist Cindy Adams at the 2000 Democratic National Convention. The Florida Cracker Trail is a route posted across southern Florida by the Florida Department of Transportation. ...

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Sometimes, women who tom are called Aunt Jemima after the popular pancake mix that long depicted a kerchief-headed family cook of that name. A roughly equivalent term (for African-Americans) is Oreo, from the chocolate sandwich cookie with white filling (implying that one is black on the outside but white on the inside). Coconut has the same meaning for Hispanics, and Twinkie for Asians. American Indians sometimes will use the terms "Uncle Tomahawk", and "Apple". These terms are considered by some to be racist and there ...

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