Redneck

English

Noun

Redneck (plural Rednecks)

1. (slang) An uneducated, unsophisticated, or poor white person, typically used to describe residents (of either gender) of the rural US.
2. (slang) The nickname given to miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.

Derived terms

• redneckish
• redneckism
• rednecky

Thesaurus

backwoodsman, briar-hopper, brush ape, bushman, clam digger, cracker, desert rat, forester, frontiersman, hillbilly, hinterlander, mountain man, mountaineer, piny, ridge runner, woodlander, woodman, woodsman

Etymology

Compound of red +‎ neck (referring to the red neckerchiefs worn by unionized workers during the mine wars in West Virginia)

Translations

uneducated, unsophisticated person

Chinese: Mandarin: 土包子 (cmn) (tǔbāozi), 鄉巴佬 (cmn), 乡巴佬 (cmn) (xiāngbalǎo) Finnish: punaniska French: beauf (fr) m., baraki (fr) m. (Belgium)

German: Prolet (de) m. Navajo: kʼos łichíʼí Polish: burak (pl) m. Portuguese: caipira (pt)