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redneck

noun
/ˈɹɛdnɛk/

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from *knog-✻
  2. inherited from *hnakkô✻ — “nape, neck”
  3. inherited from hnecca
  4. inherited from nekke
  5. compounded as redneck — “red + neck”

Definitions

  1. A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the…

    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.

  2. yokel, hick, country bumpkin

    • Sample a look back you look and find / Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check

  3. Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine…

    Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.

    2. A Roman Catholic.

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