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Poor white trash   /pur waɪt træʃ/   Listen
Poor white trash

noun
1.
(slang) an offensive term for White people who are impoverished.  Synonym: white trash.






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"Poor white trash" Quotes from Famous Books



... rude home of logs; under him, and in wretched cabins at the head of the creek or on the washed spur of the mountain above, or in some "deadenin"' still higher up and swept by mists and low-trailing clouds, the poor white trash—worthless descendants of the servile and sometimes criminal class who might have traced their origin back to the slums of London; hand-to-mouth tenants of the valley-aristocrat, hewers of wood for him in the lowlands and upland guardians ...
— The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come • John Fox



Words linked to "Poor white trash" :   derogation, jargon, Caucasian, cant, patois, depreciation, lingo, argot, white, poor person, slang, White person, have-not, vernacular, disparagement



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