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Slur | Represents | Reason & Origins |
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A.I. | Americans | Stands for American Ignorance as well as Artificial Intelligence-in other words...Americans are stupid and ignorant. they think they have everything and are more advanced than every other country |
Akata | Black Americans | West African (Yoruba) term for African-Americans. Meaning ancestors of slaves or "cotton picker". |
Alcoholic | Native Americans | Known to have a hard time handling their liquor. |
Ame-koh | Americans | Term for Americans used by Japanese. |
American't | Americans | Americans are stereotypically lazy. |
Americunt | Americans | Self Explanatory |
AmeriKKKan | Americans | Reference to inherent racism in US society. Entered the language as a part 1960s counter-cultural slang. |
Amerikos | Americans | Russian deragatory term for a dumb American |
Ami | Americans | This is just a German abbreviation. By itself it is not derogatory. Scheiss-Ami = Shit American, obviously derogatory. |
Apple | Native Americans | Used by Native Americans as derogatory for other Native Americans who are red on the outside but white on the inside. |
BFI | Native Americans | The "Big Fucking Indian" at the back of the bar you dont want to piss off. |
Big Red | Native Americans | A fat native person. Refference to the gum with the same name. |
Blackout | Native Americans | A stereo type of American Indians referencing their prevalence to excessive alcohol consumption. |
Blanket-Ass | Native Americans | From when the US Government gave tribes blankets.. I guess to make up for killing so many of them. The blankets were also rumored to be infested with smallpox. |
Boogie Man | Whites | Enslaved African-Americans told tales to their children of a Boogie Man who would abduct you, kill you or otherwise cause harm to you if you were to leave the plantation. The Boogie man of which they spoke was in essence the white man. (Possible connection tot the ghost like appearance of the KKK) |
Bow Bender | Native Americans | Indians shot bows. |
Buck | Native Americans | The male equivalent of "squaw" |
Buddhahead | Hawaiians | Hawaiian-born Japanese Americans. Originally from "buta-head" meaning pig-headed since Hawaiians were stubborn compared to their mainland counterparts. See: "kotonk" |
Buddy Blaster | Americans | Refers to US troops' inability to distinguish between friend and foe on the battlefield. |
Buffalo Jockey | Native Americans | Self-explanatory. |
Buffalo Soldier | Blacks | When the U.S. government was clearing the West of Native Americans, they sent many black units to hunt them down. The Indians thought they looked like buffalo. |
Bushmen | Americans | For electing the bush dynasty. |
Bushnigger | Native Americans | Self-explanatory. |
Carpetbagger | Americans | During the post-Civil War reconstruction era, businessmen from the North moved to the South with their possessions in bags made out of cheap carpets. |
Casino | Native Americans | In reference to the many casinos popping up on Indian reservations all over America |
Cherry Nigger | Native Americans | Color of their skin. |
Chief | Native Americans | Self-explanatory. |
Chopper | Americans | There is a high circumcision rate in the United States. |
Chug | Native Americans | Refers to alcoholism in Native Americans. They chug it back. |
Cochise | Native Americans | An Apache chief who killed many a white man |
Colonial | Americans | Used by Europeans for Americans. |
Congo | Blacks | Dark African Americans who act better than White people |
Cowboy-Killer | Native Americans | They killed many a cowboy. |
Crow | Blacks | Relatively large black bird. Could also be a reference to "Jim Crow", a popular 19th-century minstrel song that stereotyped African Americans, which later was used as the name of the Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial segregation in the South. |
Crow | Native Americans | Used against other then Crows. Crows were scouts for the American Military or considered tradors by other Native Americans. |
Custer | Whites | Used by Native Americans. I guess it means they want to see them dead like General Custer. |
Darkness | Blacks | Self Explanatory. Often used to describe a crowd of African Americans. |
Democrats | Blacks | A popular political affiliation among African Americans. Also in reference to always wanting stuff for free. |
Diesel | Native Americans | Rhyming slang, diesel engine = injun |
Dirt-Worshipper | Native Americans | Made popular by HBO's "Deadwood" |
Dubya | Americans | The not-so-bright president |
Duke Nukem | Americans | Used the first Atomic bomb. |
Eskimo | Native Americans | Eskimo was once acceptable in Canada, and still is almost anywhere else. It means "raw meat eater." Eskimo orginated from southern Indian tribes describing the northern Inuit, whom they were constantly fighting. Inuit take offence to being called Eskimos, despite the fact that they do eat raw meat. |
Eurotrash | Europeans | A pseudo-intellectual who believes they are are smart and americans are stupid. |
FBI | Native Americans | Full Blooded Indian. Used in the movie Thunderheart. Not really a slur. |
Feather | Native Americans | Used to differentiate Indians from India ("Dots") from those from America ("Feathers"). |
Featherhead | Native Americans | Comes from Native American tribes that wore feathered headdresses. |
Flash | Americans | Fucking Lazy American Shit Head. Used by Israelis to refer to American tourists who are accustomed to an easier standard of living. Compare with "dib" entry in list. |
Fort Injun/Indian | Native Americans | A term used to represent the [traitor?] Indians who hid behind the safety of the forts. |
FUBU | Blacks | As in the clothing line F.U.B.U., or known by African Americans as "For Us, By Us." Racially translated to "Farmers Used to Buy (or Beat) Us" |
Gabacho | Whites | Connotes "imperialist"; used by Mexicans and Mexican-Americans; apparently originated in Spain to refer to French. |
Gas Huffer | Native Americans | A large number of Native Americans, particularly those living in northwest Canada/Alaska, are said to be addicted to inhalants. |
Gasbag | Native Americans | Some Natives are commonly prone to 'huffing' gas out of a plastic bag. |
Gavacho | Whites | Mexican term for white Americans. Used more commonly than the outdated "Gringo" |
Glonni | Native Americans | Navajo for drunk. Extremely offensive to anyone who speaks Navajo. |
Great Satan | Americans | Some Muslim leaders have referred to America as The Great Satan |
Gringo | Whites | This is truly only derogatory in regions of northern Mexico and in the United States where it translates to "white foreigner." Gringo in many other countries in Latin America really only translates as "foreigner" without a pejorative connotation. Is generally used to refer to all foreigners/tourists of apparently northern European descent. Some say it comes from Spanish "griego" (meaning Greek) which used to be used to refer to anything foreign. Others say it comes from hearing Americans sing the popular song "Green Grow the Rushes" (unlikely though). Yet others believe it comes from when soldiers were in South America and they all wore green outfits, and they would say, "Green Go." Gringa for females. |
Guero | Whites | Used by Latin Americans |
Guerro | Whites | Used by Hispanic-Americans. Light skinned light haired person. |
Gut-Eater | Native Americans | They eat stomach lining (tripe) of deer, buffalo, etc. Also after the newly-arrived whites killed all the buffalo they would take every thing but the guts. So all the plains Indians had to eat was guts. |
Gwat | Central Americans | Short for Guatemalan. |
Halee Halaa | Indians | Manner in which they speak used by Latin Americans |
Half-a-gas-can | Native Americans | Comes from the name "Athabaskan", an Alaskan Indian group. |
Hamburger | Americans | Used by Koreans to slur Americans. |
Hatchet-Packer | Native Americans | They are always carrying their hatchets |
Hot Dog Eater | Americans | Used by Canadians, referring to American tourists who eat a lot of hot dogs. |
Huff | Native Americans | They huff gas to get high as they can't afford real drugs |
Huk | Filipinos | HUKbong Bayang Laban sa Hapon (Citizens' Forces Against the Japanese). Guerilla group that fought against the Japanese in World War II. Continued armed resistance while Americans were waiting for MacArthur to return. |
Imperialist | Americans | The USA is considered to be an empire. |
Indian | Native Americans | Indians come from India, not North/South America. Offensive because original American settlers from Europe completely misnamed them. |
Init | Native Americans | Sioux Indians. Init is a actual word the Sioux like to use. We like to say this is "rez talk" so eventually it fit to call them Inits. |
Injun | Native Americans | Pioneer-related term dates back to the 19th century during the Western Expansion. Probably comes from country people who could not pronounce the word Indian correctly. |
Jabonee | Italians | What American-born Italians call immigrant Italians, as in "He/she is a real Jabonee right off the boat. Can't even speak English." Possibly a real Italian word bastardized by English-speaking Italian-Americans. |
Jake | Americans | Used by Jamaicans towards white Americans. May be from "Jake and the Fat Man" TV show. |
Jar-Head/Jarhead | Americans | U.S. Marines have haircuts that look like lids on jars. |
Jarhead | Americans | The original Marine uniform included a stiff white and/or leather collar topping a dark blue coat, giving their heads an inhuman appearance, like they would screw on and off like a jar's lid. |
Jersey-Dweller | Blacks | New Jersey = the arm pit of America, this does not mean that African Americans live in Jersey. However, in any city in America, African Americans can be found in the worst parts (or arm pits) of that city. Therefore making them Jersey-dwellers. |
Jig | Native Americans | In Canada, they do a dance called a jig or jigging. |
Jigaboo | Blacks | Very dark-skinned Black people. Usually used among lighter-skinned African-Americans to refer to ones of very dark complexion. Made popular in the 1975 movie "Cooley High." Often shortened to "Jig." |
Joe | Americans | Were referred to as "G.I. Joe" in World War II. |
John Redcorn | Native Americans | The Native Americans character on the animated show King of the Hill is named John Redcorn |
Johnny Bull | English | John Bull as symbol of England. Non-English ethnics in the USA use the term derisively towards English-Americans |
Jumbo Jaws | Americans | The great big mutant chins many Yanks have. |
Kano | Americans | Filipino slang for Americans. Shortened from "Amerikano." |
Khmerican | Cambodians | Cambodian Americans. Khmer=Cambodian American=American Khmer + American=Khmerican |
Ki Yi | Native Americans | Rhymes with 'pie pie'. The sounds made in old western movies by the Indians. |
Klooch | Native Americans | Common slur used for Alaskan Indians. |
Knee Jerk | Native Americans | Subset of Native American indicating person who was at Wounded Knee incident in South Dakota in the '70s; Member of A.I.M. (American Indian Movement) |
Kotonk | Japanese | Mainland-Born Japanese-Americans when a Buddhahead would beat a mainland kids head, the hollow sound coming from the head was "kotonk, kotonk." See: Buddhahead. |
Kukolokod | Native Americans | From the Beatles song where there is a verse "I am the walrus, kuko loko chu". Walrus live in Alaska. |
Lofan | Whites | Anglo-Americans. A Chinese word, not necessarily derogatory. |
Maize-Muncher | Native Americans | Natives are known for there love of corn. |
Mascot | Native Americans | Their likeness is often mascots for sports teams |
Merkin | Americans | American pronunciation of "American", also a pubic wig |
Mi Dang | Blacks | The Vietnamese term for African Americans. |
MOB | Americans | Morbidly Obese Bodies on account of Americans are mostly fat (also could be Morbidly Obese Bitches for women) |
Mohow | Native Americans | Indians have Mohawks & Pow wows. |
Mojo | Hispanics | Normally used among Hispanics towards other Hispanics. "Mojo" derives from "mojado" meaning "wet" i.e. wet-backs. Mojados are Mexican citizens while pochos are Mexican-Americans. |
Moon Cricket | Whites | The slur is also used by some Native Americans against whites: "moon" as in pale, and "cricket" as in whites have big eyes and gangly legs. Whites also make annoying sounds like crickets. |
Muck | Native Americans | Short for "Muckleshoot", one of the most stereotypical and despised tribes of the Pacific Northwest |
Nagur | Blacks | The Irish-Americans called black people "Nagurs" because they could not pronounce the word "Nigger" with their accent. |
NASA | African Americans | North American Street Ape |
Nate | Native Americans | Shortened. Could probably be used on any native peoples. |
Neechee | Native Americans | Love of Lychee fruit. |
Nit | Native Americans | Chivington ordered him men: "kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice" just before the Sand Creek massacre in 1864. This was an explination as to why troops were ordered to kill Indian children. |
Non | Whites | Used by Native Americans to describe people who are "non-native". This can be directed at any race, but primarily used toward whites. Simply a descriptive word used from native to native. |
Oil Junky | Americans | The United States is a major consumer of oil. |
Pilgrim | Whites | All white people come from Europe, they claim to be American, but they are not, they are pilgrims. It's a racist term because when white people realize the truth, whatever pride they have in being American will be crushed. This term is mostly used by Mexicans and Native Americans, which happen to be the real Americans, not whites. |
Pindos | Americans | A new word for "american" used in Russia |
Pow Wow | Native Americans | Their calls |
Prairie Nigger | Native Americans | Where Natives originate, or were sent |
Pretendian | Native Americans | Native Americans who claim to be pure, but are just mixed-breeds. I suppose this could refer to any mixed -ian race. |
Provolone | Italians | Italian-Americans who act "overly Italian" with attitude and gold chains (i.e. cheesy) |
Puckstop | Americans | Great Targets, slow moving, and slow witted. |
Quadroon | African Americans | A person who is 1/4 Black. Coined during the Civil War, referring to how White you had to be in order to serve in the army. |
Radish | Native Americans | Red on the outside, white on the inside. |
Red | Native Americans | Skin color. |
Red Nigger | Native Americans | Self-explanatory. |
Redskin | Native Americans | The term Redskin, came from two places, the skin color, then the cruel torture of skinning Native Americans for a bounty. Since their skin was red they started saying "red skins." |
Salmon Cruncher | Native Americans | Salmon is the main part of the diet in many northern villages. |
Salmon Nigger | Native Americans | Salmon was a primary food source for Northwestern Native Americans. |
Sammie | Somalians | Used by Americans in 1992-1993 when in Somalia. Also known as skinnies |
Savage | Native Americans | Americans commonly called Native Americans by this name in the 1800s. |
SCAB | Americans | Stupid Caucasian American Bitches |
Scalper | Native Americans | Based on the Native American practice of scalping enemies. |
Sceptic | Americans | Rhyming slang, Sceptic Tank = Yank. Both are "full of shit." |
Scheiss-Ami | Americans | Used by Germans as derogatory reference of Americans. |
Seal-Clubber | Native Americans | Clubbing of seals for the fur and meat |
Semihole | Native Americans | Referring to the Seminole tribe. |
Seppo | Americans | Cockney rhyming slang for septic tank = yank, shortened. |
Seppo/Zeppo | Americans | Short for Septic, see Septic, Septic Tank. |
Septic | Americans | Short for Septic Tank, which is rhyming slang for "Yank." Commonly used in Ireland. May also be used in the UK. |
Septic Tank | Americans | Cockney rhyming slang for "yank", often abreviated to "Seppo" |
Septic/Sherman | Americans | Cockney rhyming slang. Septic Tank/Sherman Tank = Yank |
SFA | Americans | Stupid Fucking American - not very clever, but very prevelent in Europe |
Siwash | Native Americans | Originates from the French word Sauvage which means "savage" |
Smoke-Signal | Native Americans | Many American Indians communicated by using smoke signals. |
Sodbuster | Americans | People moving to the Midwest built their homes out of thick sod, since no other building material was available. They also had to break up the sod to plant crops. |
Spanglish | Hispanics | Spanish-Americans; English-speaking Hispanics, also the language they speak. |
Spruce Monkey | Native Americans | Spruce forests |
Squanto | Native Americans | Name of a Native American who helped the English colonists in Massachusetts develop agricultural techniques and served as an interpreter between the colonists and the Wampanoag. |
Squaw | Native Americans | Refers to Native American women. Usually thought to refer to a woman's vagina, but this is fairly controversial. |
Squaw Hopper | Native Americans | Usually associated with natives, but also used for anyone in a relationship with a native female |
Sudaca | South Americans | Used in Spain as a derogatory term for South American immigrants. Derived from the Spanish word for South American (sudamericano). |
Swamp Yankee | Americans | Of the same nature as "trailer trash", but referring to a poor Whites who live in the boonies. |
Tailless Monkeys | Filipinos | Americans who came to the Philippines at the end of the 19th century called Filipinos tailless monkeys because they were small, brown, and said to live in trees. |
TAP | Americans | Typical American Prick |
Tee-Pee Creeper | Native Americans | Some live in tee-pees. |
Timber Nigger | Native Americans | Similar to Prairie Nigger. |
Tipi Tom | Native Americans | Combination if Tee-pee living and tom-tom usage. |
Tira-flecha | Latin Americans | Racial term mostly used by Cubans or White Hispanics referring to the Mestizo peoples (or mixed Indian/Spanish) of Central or South america (since Cubans have no Indian ancestry). Means "One who throws arrows." |
Tomahawk-Chucker | Native Americans | Self-explanatory. |
Tomahonky | Native Americans | Normally refers to whites with a Native American heritage. Combo of tomahawk + honky |
Tonto | Native Americans | Native American character from The Lone Ranger. Spanish for "Idiot" |
Trail Nigger | Native Americans | Self Explanatory |
Tundra Nigger | Native Americans | same as prarie nigger, but Eskimos are a different species of animal than Indians. |
Twister Fodder | Americans | Many Midwesterners live in "Tornado Alley," which is known for having a disproportionate number of tornados every year. |
Uncle Scam | Americans | In reference to Uncle Sam but with America's bad reputation |
Wagon-Burner | Native Americans | They burnt wagons |
Wahoo | Native Americans | War Cry, there was also a famous Native American wrestler named Wahoo McDaniel in the 80's. |
War Whoop | Native Americans | Refers to the traditional Native American war cry. |
Washisho | Whites | Pronounced Wa-She-Shoo; is a typical reservation slur for Native Americans to use when talking about white people in a derogatory manner. |
Wetback | Mexicans | Comes from "Operation Wetback", a military operation devised in 1954 to stop the onslaught of illegal aliens entering the United States, primarily from Mexico. The operation was soon abandoned in part because of outcry of Mexican-Americans who were angered by the racial profiling. More info |
White Nigger | Irish | Blacks called Irish Americans this during the 1800's in retaliation to being called "Nagurs" |
WOPaho | Native Americans | Any person claiming to be part Navaho Indian, but are without papers or pedigree showing it. Similar To Wigger In Some Respects. A couple of Kootenai Indians in my home town called some people this once, and I heard it as a boy. Naturally, I asked... "You know, there's always someone claimng to be part Navaho, but they have no papers..." |
Wound | Whites | Used when Native Americans and Blacks describing Whites whom they see as hurting them many times in present and past and represent an ongoing unhealed open wound, also wounds are often pink in color (the open sore) so it represents the color of many whites who look pink |
Yank | Americans | A more commonly used derivative of Yankee, used by pretty much every other English speaking country in the world. It is usually derogatory, but can be an endearing term. |
Yankee | Americans | Slang used primarily by the British. Also used in the former Confederate states to refer to people of the Union states. Origins can be traced to the Ottowa Indians calling the English, "Yang-gees," which morphed into "Yankees" by the British who then took that home after the French and Indian war in 1763. |
Yankee Doodle | Americans | Used by the British Army to make fun of the rag-tag American army in the revolutionary war. |
Yazzie | Native Americans | Common last name among Navajos which is used in the derogatorily by whites. |
Zip | Italians | Used by some Italian-Americans to refer to new Italian immigrants because of how fast they are able to speak the old language. The term was coined by National Enquirer founder Fortune Pope, Sr. and his friend Joe Bonanno in the 50's or 60's. |