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(US) a racial term used to refer to Filipino guerillas during the Philippine–American War. The term came from gugo, the Tagalog name for Entada phaseoloides or the St. Thomas bean, the bark of which was used by Filipinas to shampoo their hair. The term was a predecessor to the term gook, a racial term used to refer to all Asian people. [70 ...
Jews Jewish people as shrewd and money-loving; derived from the character in Shakespeare's play "Merchant of Venice". [70] Yid: Europe: Jews Yiddish word for 'Jew'. [71] Zhyd. Zhydovka. Russia. Ukraine. Jews From Russian and other Slavic languages, originally neutral, but became pejorative during debate over the Jewish question in the 1800s ...
Self-referential racial term used by South Asians (Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans) living in the US and UK. It's considered an offensive term if used by people outside the ethnic group. Dipper Derogatory name for a person of East Indian descent. Short for Dumb Indian Punjab. Ditsoon
Not so, the "yuppie" was a positive self-term of success in socioeconomic terms in the 1980s and 90s. It's a class between rich and middle class, the best of both worlds when it came to a comparably good income. The level of classes between poor and middle class, known as "blue collar" doesn't have a bad taste like some people think.
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Hooligan is an English word for rowdy, criminal, irresponsible people that, while it is not exactly an ethnic slur, has racist roots, being derived as a mocking term to Irish people, derived from "Hoolihan", an Irish surname, and intentionally made to sound like an Irish word.
Wigger, also wigga, whigger and whigga, is a term for a white person of European ethnic origin who emulates the perceived mannerisms, language, and fashions that are generally stereotypically reserved for African-American culture, particularly hip hop culture. [1] [need quotation to verify] The word is a shorthand variation of "white nigger".