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Lists of pejorative terms for people include: . List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names
A child slicing Swiss chard leaves prior to drying them on the stove or sun drier, Switzerland, 1917. Verdingkinder, Verdingsbuben, "contract children", [1] or "indentured child laborers" [2] were children in Switzerland who were removed from their families by the authorities due to poverty or moral reasons (e.g. the mother being unmarried, very poor, of Yenish origin, neglect, etc.), and ...
Postcard depicting eight black children, titled "Eight Little Pickaninnies Kneeling in a row, Puerto Rico", published in 1902 or 1903.. The origins of the word pickaninny (and its alternative spellings picaninny and piccaninny) are disputed; it may derive from the Portuguese term for a small child, pequenino, meaning "tiny". [3]
Derogation is a legal term of art, [1] [2] which allows for part or all of a provision in a legal measure to be applied differently, or not at all, in certain cases. [3] The term is also used in Catholic canon law, [4] [full citation needed] and in this context differs from dispensation in that it applies to the law, whereas dispensation applies to specific people affected by the law.
In historical linguistics, the process of an inoffensive word becoming pejorative is a form of semantic drift known as pejoration.An example of pejoration is the shift in meaning of the word silly from meaning that a person was happy and fortunate to meaning that they are foolish and unsophisticated. [3]
Children of mixed ancestry, usually with a father who is black or (more rarely) other non-European origins It is believed that the first noticeable appearance of black and mixed-ancestry children appeared after the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students of 1957. The term was often used ironically and sometimes in a mildly derogatory fashion.
money spent on a bank account that results in a debit (negative) balance; the amount of the debit balance, an "overdraft facility", is permission from a bank to draw to a certain debit balance. In US English, overdraft and overdraft limit are used, respectively. overleaf * on the other side of the page (US: reverse) owt anything. Northern English.
[7] [8] Artists Vincent van Gogh and Salvador Dalí, who both had brothers of the same name who died before their birth, are examples of resurrected children. [9] Another example of a replacement child is James Barrie who is the author of Peter Pan. James Barrie was the type of replacement child that took over the role of an older sibling that ...