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词汇 redneck
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Definition of redneck in English:

redneck

noun ˈrɛdnɛkˈrɛdˌnɛk
North American derogatory, informal
  • A working-class white person from the southern US, especially a politically reactionary one.

    〈北美,贬,非正式〉红脖人(美国南部白人劳动者,尤指政治上的反动者)

    as modifier redneck towns
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the first example, he's parodying southern rednecks.
    • If there is a danger of this happening, then I think we need to make it clear to the government that rednecks are not the only people who can impose a political cost.
    • The book is careful not to stereotype Evie's family as ignorant rednecks.
    • So one of these rednecks tells a racist joke and they're all laughing, except the big guy.
    • It does not make the grade in what is otherwise a magnificent satire of white, redneck cultural values.
    • Would you please tell Derb that not all Southerners are rednecks.
    • When most people hear about Memphis they think of rednecks and country people.
    • The rednecks were attacking us from the top of the rock.
    • It is hard not to have a sneaking admiration for someone who can enrage southern rednecks as easily as he can rile a group of feminist college students.
    • It made most people look like unsophisticated rednecks.
    • The local rednecks were angry that immigrants from the future were taking their jobs, and were discussing what to do about it.
    • White trash rednecks from backward places such as Texas are an even easier target over there.
    • But now the rednecks are calling the shots, and the neocons are telling them how.
    • This is a chapter about working, again: I make fun of rednecks in here.
    • You know, rednecks get married when they're teenagers and stuff.
    • The small businesspeople are the rednecks that run the town and suppress the people.
    • A large portion of people at the school were rednecks, and hugely homophobic.
    • And I remember listening to that back in Georgia, and I watched rednecks laugh at it.
    • At one point in my life, I lived in a trailer, hung out with tobacco spitting rednecks, and spoke with an extreme drawl.
    • ‘Hopefully I am making a connection with the rednecks of Texas,’ he says with a deep laugh.

Derivatives

  • rednecked

  • adjective
    North American derogatory, informal
    • In their cartoon version of the world we have to choose between the ignorant rednecked conservatism of Bush's America and the civilized social democracies of Europe.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Why should the people of New Zealand be forced to accept my possibly right-wing, biased, rednecked, conservative, out-of-this-world, and off-this-planet view on this issue?
      • The film is obviously designed to appeal to the egos of rednecked, less intelligent males - anyone else would probably be unbearably bored.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from the idea of the back of the neck being sunburned from outdoor work.

Definition of redneck in US English:

redneck

nounˈrɛdˌnɛkˈredˌnek
North American derogatory, informal
  • A working-class white person, especially a politically reactionary one from a rural area.

    〈北美,贬,非正式〉红脖人(美国南部白人劳动者,尤指政治上的反动者)

    rednecks in the high, cheap seats stomped their feet and hooted
    as modifier a place of redneck biases
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A large portion of people at the school were rednecks, and hugely homophobic.
    • You know, rednecks get married when they're teenagers and stuff.
    • So one of these rednecks tells a racist joke and they're all laughing, except the big guy.
    • It does not make the grade in what is otherwise a magnificent satire of white, redneck cultural values.
    • The small businesspeople are the rednecks that run the town and suppress the people.
    • White trash rednecks from backward places such as Texas are an even easier target over there.
    • If there is a danger of this happening, then I think we need to make it clear to the government that rednecks are not the only people who can impose a political cost.
    • It made most people look like unsophisticated rednecks.
    • In the first example, he's parodying southern rednecks.
    • When most people hear about Memphis they think of rednecks and country people.
    • At one point in my life, I lived in a trailer, hung out with tobacco spitting rednecks, and spoke with an extreme drawl.
    • This is a chapter about working, again: I make fun of rednecks in here.
    • And I remember listening to that back in Georgia, and I watched rednecks laugh at it.
    • But now the rednecks are calling the shots, and the neocons are telling them how.
    • ‘Hopefully I am making a connection with the rednecks of Texas,’ he says with a deep laugh.
    • The book is careful not to stereotype Evie's family as ignorant rednecks.
    • The local rednecks were angry that immigrants from the future were taking their jobs, and were discussing what to do about it.
    • Would you please tell Derb that not all Southerners are rednecks.
    • The rednecks were attacking us from the top of the rock.
    • It is hard not to have a sneaking admiration for someone who can enrage southern rednecks as easily as he can rile a group of feminist college students.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from the idea of the back of the neck being sunburned from outdoor work.

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