white trash
Meaning
Noun
- A poorly-educated white person or, collectively, white people of low social status.
Related
Similar words
- See whitey
Origin
- A shortening, first attested in 1850, of poor white trash, which black slaves in the Southern United States were said to call white individuals who worked in servile positions (for example, as butlers).
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