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| abo | an aboriginal: ABOS. |
| aborigen aborigin aborigine | an original or native inhabitant of a country. |
| amakwerekwere+ | a term used by blacks to refer to foreign Africans. |
| amphiscian | an inhabitant of the torrid zone, one whose shadow is thrown both ways. |
| anglo+ | a white inhabitant of the US not of Latin origin: ANGLOS. |
| antiscian | a dweller on the exact opposite side of the world. |
| ascian | an inhabitant of the torrid zone, shadowless when the sun is right overhead. |
| auslander | (German) a foreigner. |
| autochthon | one sprung from the ground he inhabits, an aborigine. |
| backblocker+ | one who lives in the BACKBLOCKS, a rural backwater. |
| backra bakra+ | in the Caribbean, a white person, esp. from Britain. |
| bantu | a black person in S Africa, now offensive. |
| bedawin bedouin beduin | a tent-dwelling nomadic Arab. |
| bedu | a tent-dwelling nomadic Arab. N.B. no –S. |
| beento | (W. African) a person who has resided in Britain, esp as part of his education: BEENTOS. |
| binghi | (Aust. sl.) the archetypal aboriginal: BINGHIS. |
| blackamoor | (arch.) a dark-skinned or black person. |
| bluenose | a nickname for a Nova Scotian. |
| boche bosche | a German, esp. a German soldier. |
| bogtrotter | one who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish. |
| bohemian boho+ | an artist or writer following an unconventional lifestyle. |
| bohunk | a Slav or Hungarian, esp. an unskilled worker. |
| booner+ | a young working class person from Canberra. |
| boong | an aborigine, a New Guinea native. |
| boonga+ | (NZ) a Pacific islander. |
| bosche | see BOCHE. |
| buckra | a white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc: BUCKRAS. Cf. BACKRA. |
| buppie buppy | a Black urban professional. |
| bushie+ | someone who lives in the bush. |
| bushy | someone who lives in the bush; (adj.) bush-like: BUSHIER, BUSHIEST; BUSHILY. |
| cagot | one of an outcast class found in the Pyrenees, supposed to be the descendants of lepers. |
| cajun | relating to descendants of the French-speaking Acadians deported to Louisiana in 1755. No -S. |
| chai | (Romany) a woman. |
| chal | (Romany) a man. |
| chicana | a (female) American of Mexican descent. |
| chicano | a (male) American of Mexican descent: CHICANOS. |
| chigga+ | (Aust. sl.) derogatory term for a young working-class person from Hobart, Tasmania. |
| chola+ | a Mexican-American girl. |
| cholo | a Mexican-American youth: CHOLOS. |
| choom | (Aust. sl.) an Englishman. |
| citizen | a resident of a city or town. |
| citizenly | like a CITIZEN. |
| cockney | a person born in London within sound of Bow Bells. |
| colleen | an Irish girl. [Ir. cailín dim. of caile countrywoman, girl]. |
| colored coloured | a coloured person. |
| comeover+ | a person who has come from Britain to the Isle of Man to settle. |
| coolie cooly | a (non-European) hired labourer or burden-carrier in India, China, and elsewhere. |
| coon | (offensive) a black person; (non-offensive) a raccoon. |
| copperskin | a Native American. |
| countian | an inhabitant of a county. |
| countryman | a man who lives in the country. |
| countrywoman | a woman who lives in the country. |
| cracka+ | (US) a derogatory term for a poor white person. |
| creole creolian | a native of mixed blood. |
| criollo | a Latin American native of European esp. Spanish blood: CRIOLLOS. |
| crunchie+ | in S. Africa, an Afrikaaner. |
| dago | a Spaniard: DAGOS or DAGOES. |
| dalesman | one who lives in the dales. |
| darkey darkie darky | a black or coloured person. |
| didakai didakei didicoi didicoy diddicoy | (Romany) an itinerant tinker or scrap-dealer, not a true GYPSY. |
| downstater | one who lives or comes from downstate. |
| downtowner | one who lives or comes from downtown. |
| earthling earthman | an inhabitant of the earth. |
| easter | one living in the east. |
| easterling | a native of the east; a trader from the Baltic. |
| easterner | one who lives in or comes from the east. |
| emigre | one of the natives of France who were opposed to the first Revolution, and who left their country in consequence. |
| ephebe | a young adult Greek: EPHEBES. |
| ephebos | a young adult Greek: EPHEBOI. |
| ephebus | a young adult Greek: EPHEBI. |
| espanol | a native of Spain: ESPANOLES. |
| etranger | (Fr.) a (male) foreigner. |
| etrangere | (Fr.) a (female) foreigner. |
| evolue | (characteristic of or designating) an African who has had a European education or has adopted European ways or attitudes. |
| faw | (Romany) a gypsy. |
| fenman | one native to the fens of East Anglia. |
| flatlander | one who lives in flat country. |
| foreigner | a person belonging to, or from, another country. |
| frau | a German woman or housewife. |
| fraulein | a German girl. |
| freshie+ | a new immigrant to the UK from Asian countries. |
| frow vrow vrouw vrou(+) | a Dutch woman. |
| furriner | a foreigner. |
| gadgie gauje gaudgie gadje | (Romany) a fellow, a man. |
| gadjo gajo gorgio | (Romany) a non-gypsy. |
| gaijin | (Japanese) a term for a foreigner. No -S. |
| gammat+ | (S. Afr.) a Cape Coloured person. |
| geechee | (US) a rural southern black. |
| gentile | one of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian |
| gentilic | belonging to a gentile tribe or nation. |
| ginzo+ | a person of Italian descent: GINZOES. |
| gipsy gypsy | a Romany, a member of a wandering people of Indian origin; (verb) to live like a gipsy. |
| gippo gippy gyppie gyppo gyppy | (offensive) a gypsy. |
| gitana | (Spanish) a female gypsy. |
| gitano | (Spanish) a male gypsy. |
| gook | a native of an occupied country. |
| gooky | gook-like. No comp! |
| gora+ | (Hinglish) a white or fair-skinned male: GORAS. |
| gorgio | see GADJO. |
| gori+ | (Hinglish) a white or fair-skinned female: GORIS. |
| goy | a Gentile: GOYIM or GOYS. |
| goyisch goyish | like a GOY, non-Jew, Gentile. |
| greaseball | a person of Latin racial origin. |
| gringa+ | a female GRINGO, in Spanish-speaking America, someone who does not speak Spanish. |
| gringo | in Spanish-speaking America, someone who does not speak Spanish: GRINGOS. |
| grockle | a tourist or incomer in a holiday area. |
| gub gubbah | (Caribbean) a white man. |
| gumsucker+ | a native-born Australian. |
| habitan habitant | a French native of Louisiana or Carolina. |
| hairyback+ | (S. Afr.) an offensive name for an Afrikaaner. |
| haole | (Hawaii) one who is not a native Hawaiian. [Hawaiian haole, white]. |
| heteroscian | a dweller in a temperate zone. |
| hieland+ | characteristic of Highlanders esp in respect of supposed gullibility. |
| highlander | one who lives in the highlands. |
| honkey honkie honky | (Black slang) a white man. |
| hori+ | (NZ) a Maori: HORIS. |
| hottentot | one of a South African ethnic group, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and woolly hair growing in tufts. |
| hundreder hundredor | an inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred. |
| hunkey+ hunkie+ | a person of Hungarian descent: HUNKIES(!). Also HUNKEY. |
| hunky | a derogatory name for a worker of East European descent, esp. an unskilled worker: HUNKIES; (adj.) excellent, all-round: HUNKIER, HUNKIEST. |
| inlander | one who lives in the interior of a country. |
| insular | like an island: INSULARLY; (noun) a native or inhabitant of an island: INSULARS. |
| islander | one hwo lives on an island. |
| isleman islesman | an ISLANDER, esp. an inhabitant of the Hebrides. |
| issei | a Japanese immigrant to the USA: ISSEIS. |
| isthmian | a native of an isthmus. |
| jackeen | (Irish) a person from Dublin, esp. one with a parochial attitude. |
| jafa+ | (NZ) an offensive name for a person from Auckland [Just Another F**king Aucklander]. |
| jigaboo | a black person. |
| jungli | one who inhabits a jungle, wild and uncivilized: JUNGLIS. |
| kamaaina | (Hawaii) a longtime resident of Hawaii. [Hawaiian kama, child, + aina, land]. |
| kanaka | a native of the Sandwich Islands. [Hawaiian, a man]. |
| kelper | an inhabitant of the Falkland Isles. |
| kibei | an American Japanese educated in Japan. |
| kike | a Jew. |
| klooch klootch kloochman klootchman | a Native American woman, wife or squaw. The pl. of KLOOCHMAN is KLOOCHMANS or KLOOCHMEN; the pl, of KLOOTCHMAN is KLOOTCHMANS or KLOOTCHMEN. |
| koori | a young Aborigine girl: KOORIS or KOORIES(+). |
| kraut | a derogatory term for a German. |
| landsman | a fellow Jew from the same town in Eastern Europe: LANDSMEN. |
| latina+ | a female Latin American. |
| latino | a Latin American: LATINOS. |
| limey | (US) an Englishman. |
| liveyer+ liveyere+ livier livyer | a permanent resident of Newfoundland. |
| llanero | one of the inhabitants of the llanos of South America: LLANEROS. |
| localite | one who lives in a particular locality. |
| lowlander | one who lives in the lowlands. |
| lubra | (Aust.) an aboriginal woman: LUBRAS. |
| lunarian | an (imaginary) inhabitant of the moon; a student of the moon. |
| mainlander | one who lives on the mainland. |
| mameluco | a child born of a white father and Indian mother: MAMELUCOS. [Port., prob. f. Arab. mamluk, possession, slave]. |
| marcher marchman | a person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales. |
| martian | a supposed inhabitant of Mars. |
| mary | (Aust.) a woman, esp. an aboriginal woman: MARIES. |
| melanochroi | people, like Caucasians, with dark hair and light skin. [Greek melas, (dark) + okhros, (pale)]. |
| melungeon+ | any of a dark-skinned group of people living in the Appalachians, of mixed White, Indian and Black origin. |
| meneer mijnheer mynheer | a Dutchman. |
| mestee mustee | in the West Indies, the offspring of a white person and a quadroon. |
| mesteso | a person of mixed, esp. Spanish and American-Indian parentage: MESTESOS or MESTESOES. |
| mestino | a person of mixed, esp. Spanish and American-Indian parentage: MESTINOES or MESTINOS. |
| mestiza | a female MESTIZO, a person of mixed, esp. Spanish and American-Indian parentage: MESTIZAS. |
| mestizo | a person of mixed, esp. Spanish and American-Indian parentage: MESTIZOES or MESTIZOS. |
| metic | (In ancient Greece) a resident alien in a city, subject to a special tax. |
| metif | the offspring of a white and a quadroon. |
| metis | the (male) offspring of a white person and an American Indian: METIS (METISSES is the plural of METISSE). |
| metisse | the (female) offspring of a white person and an American Indian: METISSES. Cf. METIS. |
| mick micky | an Irishman. |
| mickey | an Irishman; (verb) to drug someone’s drink. |
| milesian+ | of Irish origin. |
| miscegen miscegene miscegine | a person of mixed racial heritage. |
| monsieur mounseer | a Frenchman. The pl. of MONSIEUR is MESSIEURS. |
| montagnard | one of a mountain-dwelling people of Southern Vietnam on the Cambodian border. |
| mooloo+ | (NZ) a person from the Waikato. |
| moorman | an inhabitant of a moor. |
| morisco | a Moor: MORISCOS or MORISCOES. |
| mounseer | see MONSIEUR. |
| mudejar | a Spanish Moor, esp. one allowed to remain in Spain after the Conquest: MUDEJARES. [Arabic mudajjan, one allowed to remain]. |
| mulatta | a female MULATTO. |
| mulatto | the offspring of a black person and a person of European descent: MULATTOES or MULATTOS. |
| munt muntu | (derog.) a black African: MUNTUS. |
| murree+ murri+ | a native Australian. |
| mustee | see MESTEE. |
| myall | an Australian aborigine living traditionally; also a kind of acacia. |
| mzungu | in E. Africa, a white person. |
| negress | a female negro. |
| negro | a member of any of the dark-skinned peoples of Africa or a person racially descended from one of them: NEGROES. |
| negroid | a person of negro descent: NEGROIDS. |
| negroidal | negroid. |
| niger | a negro. |
| nigger | a person of negroid origin: NIGGERY; (verb) to exhaust by overcropping; to char, blacken: NIGGERS, NIGGERING, NIGGERED. |
| niggerdom | black people collectively. |
| niggerish | like a nigger. |
| niggerling | a little Black person. |
| niggery | like a NIGGER. |
| nisei | a second-generation Japanese immigrant. |
| nitchie | a derogatory term for an American Indian. |
| nomad nomade | a member of a wandering pastoral community. |
| nonblack | one who is not black. |
| nonwhite | one who is not white. |
| nortena | (used by Latin Americans) a female North American. |
| norteno | (used by Latin Americans) a male North American: NORTENOS. |
| northern | a native of the north. |
| occidental | one who lives in the west. |
| octaroon octoroon | a person having one-eighth Black blood; the offspring of a quadroon and a White. |
| ofay | (Black slang) a white person. |
| oppidan | a town-dweller; a student at Eton boarding in the town |
| orarian | a coast-dweller. |
| outbacker | one who lives in the outback, remote rural regions. |
| outlander | (S. Afr.) a foreigner. |
| outporter+ | an inhabitant or native of a Newfoundland outport. |
| pakeha | (Polynesia) a white man; a non-Polynesian citizen. |
| palagi | a Samoan word for a person from outside the Pacific islands, esp. a European. |
| paleface | (Am. Ind.) a white man. |
| pampean | an inhabitant of the pampas. |
| peopler | a settler; an inhabitant. |
| periscian | a person living inside the polar circle. |
| picaninny piccaninny piccanin | a small black child. |
| pigmaean pigmean pygmaean pygmean | pygmy-like. |
| pigmoid pygmoid | of pygmy form. |
| pigmy pygmy | a member of any of the unusually short-statured human races (Negritos, Negrillos and others). |
| plaidman | a Scots Highlander. |
| plainsman | a dweller in a plain, esp. in N. America. |
| pom pommie pommy | (Aust. sl.) an Englishman. |
| portman | an inhabitant or burgess of a port, esp. of one of the Cinque Ports. |
| pygmaean | see PIGMAEAN. |
| pygmean | see PIGMAEAN. |
| pygmoid | see PIGMOID. |
| pygmy | see PIGMY. |
| pygmyish | like a PYGMY. N.B. no PIGMYISH*. |
| quadroon quarteroon | an old term for a person of one-quarter black ancestry. |
| quashee quashie | a black person, esp. in the West Indies. |
| quintroon | an old term for someone who is of 1/16 black descent. |
| raghead | an Arab. |
| raia raya rayah | a non-Muslim subject of Turkey. |
| redleg | (W. Indies) a term for a poor white person, esp. a descendant of original white settlers. |
| redskin | a Native American. |
| riverain | a riverside dweller. |
| rom | (Romany) a gypsy man: ROMA, ROMAS, ROMS. |
| ronzer+ | (NZ) someone from the rest of New Zealand i.e. apart from Auckland. |
| rooinek | an Afrikaans nickname for an English-speaking person. [Afrikaans = 'red neck']. |
| rosbif+ | (French) an English person. |
| rural | a country-dweller: RURALS. |
| saganash | (Am. Ind.) a white man. [Algonquin]. |
| saheb sahib | (Hindi) an Englishman or other European as addressed or spoken of by Indians. |
| sakai+ | a Malaysian aborigine. |
| sambo zambo | a colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto: SAMBOS. |
| sannop sannup | a married male in N. American Indian societies. |
| sansei | a resident of the Americas born of the offspring of Japanese immigrants. |
| scattermouch | any Latin or Levantine person. |
| schvartze+ schwartze+ shvartze+ | a black person. |
| scouser | a native or inhabitant of Liverpool. |
| shagroon | an early settler in New Zealand of other than British origin. [Irish seachran, wandering]. |
| sheeney sheenie sheeny | a Jew, a pawnbroker. |
| shegetz | among Jewish people, a Gentile boy; a Jewish boy not observing traditional Jewish behaviour: SHKOTZIM. |
| shicksa shiksa shikse shikseh+ | a non-Jewish girl or young woman. |
| shoneen | an Irishman who imitates the ways and manners of the English. |
| shoreman shoresman | one who dwells on or by the shore. |
| shvartze+ | see SCHVARTZE. |
| skimo | (offensive) an Eskimo. |
| sider | a person who or thing which lives or is situated on a side specified by a preceding wd; spec. (esp. Austral.) a native or inhabitant of a specified district. |
| silvan sylvan | one that lives in a forest. |
| siwash | a NW American Indian; (verb) to camp out using natural shelter: SIWASHES, SIWASHING(+), SIWASHED(+). |
| sloper | a native or inhabitant of the Pacific slope of the United States. |
| southern | a southerner. |
| southerner | an inhabitant or native of the south, esp. of the Southern States of North America; opposed to Northerner. |
| southlander | one who lives in the south. |
| southron | someone from the south. |
| soutie+ soutpiel+ | derogatory for an English-speaking South African. |
| spag | an Italian person; (verb) of a cat, to scratch a person: SPAGS, SPAGGING(+), SPAGGED(+). |
| spic spik | (US slang) a person from a Spanish-speaking American country. |
| spick | (US slang) a person from a Spanish-speaking American country; (adj.) tidy, fresh: SPICKER, SPICKEST. |
| spik | see SPIC. |
| squarehead | a German or Scandinavian. |
| squaw | a woman, esp a wife. [Massachuset squa]. |
| squawman | a white man with a Native American wife. |
| swaddler | a term of contempt for an Irish Methodist. |
| swamper | a person who lives or works in the swamps. |
| taig+ | (Irish) derogatory for a Roman Catholic. |
| tartanalia | artefacts etc. that are self-consciously Scottish. |
| tartar | a formidable, rough, unmanageable or ferocious person, as people from Tartary were considered to be: TARTARLY. |
| tauiwi+ | non-Maori people of New Zealand: TAUIWIS. [Maori 'foreign race']. |
| tedesca | a (female) German: TEDESCHE. |
| tedesco | a (male) German: TEDESCHI. |
| teuchter | a derogatory term used by a Lowland Scot for a Highlander. |
| towelhead | a person who wears a turban, an Arab. |
| townee townie | a town-dweller. |
| townish | of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a town; like the town. |
| townfolk townsfolk | the people of a town. N.B. TOWNSFOLKS is OK but there is no TOWNFOLKS*. |
| townskip | a city urchin. |
| townsman | one who lives in a town. |
| tribal | pertaining to a tribe: TRIBALLY; (noun) a member of an aboriginal tribe of India: TRIBALS(+). |
| troglodyte | a member of any of various peoples (as in antiquity) who lived or were reputed to live chiefly in caves. |
| tsigane tzigane tzigany zigan | (Hungarian) a gypsy. |
| tsotsi | a member of a black S. African street gang; a young hooligan: TSOTSIS. [Perh. f. Nguni tsotsa, to dress in exaggerated clothing]. |
| uitlander | in S. Africa, a foreigner, esp. a Briton in the Transvaal. |
| umlungu | (Nguni) a white man, esp used as a term of address. |
| uplander | one who lives on the uplands. |
| upstater | one from the northern region of an American state. |
| uptowner | one from the residential part of a town. |
| urbanite | one who lives in a town. |
| vahine | (Tahitian) a woman: VAHINES. |
| vandalic | of or pertaining to the Vandals; resembling the Vandals in barbarism and destructiveness. |
| villager | one who lives in a village. |
| volk | the Afrikaner people. |
| voortrekker | (Afrikaans) one of the Dutch farmers from Cape Colony who took part in the Great Trek into the Transvaal in 1836. |
| vrow vrouw vrou(+) | see FROW. |
| wahine | (Maori) a Maori woman. Cf. VAHINE. |
| westerner | one who lives in or comes from the west. |
| westie+ | (Aust. sl.) a young working-class person from the western suburbs of Sydney. |
| wetback | someone illegally entering the USA by swimming the Rio Grande. |
| whenwe+ | (S. Afr.) a white immigrant from Zimbabwe. |
| whitey | a white person: WHITEYS. |
| whity | a white person: WHITIES; (adj.) whiteish: WHITIER, WHITIEST. |
| wigga+ wigger+ | a white youth who adopts Black youth culture. |
| wog | an offensive word for a nonwhite foreigner. |
| woggish+ | like a WOG(!), offensive word for non-white foreigner. |
| woodlander | one who lives or works in woodland. |
| woollyback | a dialect term used in Liverpool, England for a non-Liverpudlian, esp. from one of the neighbouring towns. |
| wop | a member of a Mediterranean or Latin race, eg an Italian; (verb) to thump: WOPS, WOPPING, WOPPED. |
| wudjula+ | (Australina aborigine) a non-aboriginal person. |
| yanqui | in Latin America, a North American. |
| yid | an offensive term for a Jew. |
| zambo | see SAMBO. |
| zingano | (Ital.) a male gypsy: ZINGANI. |
| zingara | (Ital.) a female gypsy: ZINGARE. |
| zingaro | (Ital.) a male gypsy: ZINGARI. |