English Dictionary

poor white trash

名詞

アメリカ英語 民族名 廃用 差別語 不可算名詞 歴史的アフリカ系アメリカ人英語 軽蔑的 現代英語

(US, obsolete, ethnic slur, used by black slaves) White person or people employed in a servile position, for example, as a butler.

日本語の意味

侮蔑的な表現で、下働きなど隷属的な立場にある、または低い社会的地位に置かれた白人、特に貧困層の白人を指す。

The historian explained that the phrase poor white trash, once used by enslaved people to describe white staff, reflected the complex and oppressive social order of the time.

歴史家は、その言葉がかつて奴隷たちによって召使いのような地位にある白人を指す侮蔑語として使われ、当時の複雑で抑圧的な社会秩序を反映していたと説明した。

意味（1）

(US, obsolete, ethnic slur, used by black slaves) White person or people employed in a servile position, for example, as a butler.

In the south, there are no servants but blacks; for the greater proportion of domestics being slaves all species of servitude whatever is looked upon as a degradation; and the slaves themselves entertain the very highest contempt for white servants, whom they designate as ‘poor white trash’.]

意味（2）

(US, modern, derogatory, ethnic slur) White trash; poor, uneducated white person or people of low social status.

Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?