Word of the day: buckra

The word of the day is buckra:

—noun Southern U.S. (chiefly South Atlantic States) .

1. Usually Disparaging and Offensive. a term used to refer to a white man.

disparaging term among U.S. blacks for "white person," especially a poor one, 1790, apparently from an African language; cf. mbakara "master" in Efik, a language of the Ibibio people of southern Nigeria.

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"Marginalized and without demand for their labor, poor whites bore up under rude epithets—crackers, white trash, po buckra."

 - Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right