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A poorly educated white person or, collectively, white people of low social status and often regarded as lazy, irresponsible, unintelligent, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, derogatory, ethnic, idiomatic, offensive, slur, uncountable
Examples
- This white trash can't pay for his own beer.
- These lowlife characters are white trash.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
(slang) an offensive term for White people who are impoverished
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: poor white trash
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: White, White person, Caucasian, poor person, have-not
A shortening, first attested in 1850, of poor white trash, which black slaves in the Southern United States were said to call white individuals who worked in servile positions (for example, as butlers).
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Chinese Mandarin:
白色垃圾
(báisè lājī, báisè lèsè)
— white person or people of low social status (pejorative)
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Chinese Mandarin:
洋垃圾
(yáng lājī)
— white person or people of low social status (pejorative)
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Finnish:
valkoinen roskaväki
— white person or people of low social status (pejorative)
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Finnish:
valkoroska
— white person or people of low social status (pejorative)
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French:
déchet blanc
— white person or people of low social status (pejorative)
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French:
white trash
— white person or people of low social status (pejorative)
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German:
White Trash
— white person or people of low social status (pejorative)
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German:
weißer Abschaum
— white person or people of low social status (pejorative)
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German:
weißes Gesindel mit viel Geld
— white person or people of low social status (pejorative)
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Japanese:
ホワイトトラッシュ
(howaitotorasshu)
— white person or people of low social status (pejorative)
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Japanese:
プアホワイト
(puahowaito)
— white person or people of low social status (pejorative)
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Kazakh:
ақ қоқыс
(aq qoqys)
— white person or people of low social status (pejorative)
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Polish:
biała biedota
— white person or people of low social status (pejorative)
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Russian:
бе́лое отро́дье
(béloje otródʹje)
— white person or people of low social status (pejorative)
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Russian:
бе́лое отре́бье
(béloje otrébʹje)
— white person or people of low social status (pejorative)
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Russian:
бе́лая шваль
(bélaja švalʹ)
— white person or people of low social status (pejorative)
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Russian:
бе́лый му́сор
(bélyj músor)
— white person or people of low social status (pejorative)
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Swedish:
WT
— white person or people of low social status (pejorative)
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Thai:
ฝรั่งขี้นก
(fà-ràng-kîi-nók)
— white person or people of low social status (pejorative)
