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- noun US, obsolete, ethnic slur
White people who worked in servile positions (for example, as butlers). - noun US, modern, pejorative, ethnic slur
White trash ; poor, uneducated white people of low social status.
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- noun (slang) an offensive term for White people who are impoverished
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First attested in 1835.
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