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The following is a list of ethnic slurs that are, or have been, used to refer to members of a given ethnicity (or, in some cases, nationality or religion) in a derogatory or pejorative manner. The term is listed, followed by its primary user(s) and a definition.

Terms on this list vary greatly in offensiveness. Many are taboo. Some are used more widely than might be imagined based on their "definition"; for example, Chink can be used to refer to any Asian person, a form of synecdoche. The key here is that the person using the slur cares so little about the target, that the person's actual background is irrelevant. The motivation for using an ethnic slur is often racism or bigotry.

It is not uncommon for minority groups to adopt an originally disparaging term and use it of themselves, as an act of self-assertion. However, they may be extremely offended if it is used by others; nigger is an extreme example.

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• 51st Stater – Facetious reference to any citizen of a nation whose politics and culture appear closely aligned with the United States'. This term is used in self-deprication, or to malign. Usually applied to Canadians, the term can also be used to describe Australians or the British.
• 927 – U.S. blacks, comes from the suburban Los Angeles Police Department code for "Suspicious Person"

A

• A.I. – short for "American Ignorance" used for US citizens
• Abba-Dabba – from the film Betrayed, referring to Arabs and the United Arab Emirates city of Abu Dhabi
• ABA – Another Bloody Australian. Used in Canadian ski resort towns, primarily Whistler/Blackcomb. Describes members the prevalent Australian ex-patriate communities in those areas.
• ABCD – "American-Born Confused Desi" used for American-born Indians who are confused about their culture
• Abo – Australia, Australian aboriginal. This used to be the standard common term for Aboriginals, and was used by many Aboriginal people themselves (It was not considered offensive until the 1950s)
• Abomination – North America, Offensive slang for half bred children, mainly used for half white children
• Adolf – Germans, referring to Adolf Hitler
• African queen – U.K., a black gay male. Also the title of a film.
• Afro-Saxon – Young white men who act black
• Ahab – whites, from Moby Dick
• Ainu – Japanese people, originally referring to a valid minority (the Ainu) of Japan, now sometimes used as a derogatory term for any Asian, emphasizing barbarism
• Albino – whites (see albino)
• Albo- Albanians
• Ame-koh – Americans, used in Japan
• Americunt – can be used in reference to American women and men
• AmeriKKKan – a reference to perceived racism in American society
• Amerloque – France, an American
• Amoronican – used in reference to perceived low intelligence of Americans
• Amo – the Amish
• A-Neh – Singaporean and Malaysian Hokkiens, an Indian person
• Angie – Anglophones in Canada, used in Quebec
• Anglo – US, a white person
• Ang Mor (Kwee) – Hokkien speakers, Red Hair (Devil), a white person
• Ape Candy – Whites who date blacks.
• Apple – U.S., a black person (apples hang from trees) cf. windchime, Canada, an Indian who "acts" like a white (red on the outside, white on the inside).
• Apu – U.S., popularized by the character of the same name from The Simpsons, referring to Indians
• Arkie – similar to Okie, except from Arkansas instead of Oklahoma. see Okie.
• A-rab – U.S., someone of Middle-eastern descent (pronounced as the letter "A" followed by "rab" as in rabbit)
• Armo – Armenians
• Aunt Jemima, U.S. Blacks, a black woman who "kisses up" to whites, a "sellout", cf. Uncle Tom
• Ay-rab – U.S., variant spelling of A-rab

B

• Babuska – Eastern Europeans, deriving from the head covering worn by Ukrainian women or from the Russian word for grandmother
• Bagel dog – Jews, referring to traditional food product: bagels
• Bahadur – Nepali servants
• Bamboo coon – Chinese people
• Banana – Canada, U.S., an Asian who is "yellow on the outside, white on the inside"
• Bangla – Malaysia and Singapore, a Bangladeshi
• Barbarian – Ancient Greece, any non-Greek (derived from the Greek perception of any non-Greek-speaker babbling ("ba-ba-ba"); Ancient China, any non-Chinese, but applied especially upon non-Confucianist cultures
• BBCD – British Born Confused Desi
• Beaner / bean-eater – Western U.S., someone of Mexican descent
• Beaner – U.S., Chicanos or Latinos in general
• Beastie Boy – Jews who act black, comes from The Beastie Boys
• Bible-thumper (also Bible Banger) – non-Christians, Christians
• Bigger Thomas – U.S. Blacks, slang for a bad nigger
• Bhai – Malaysia and Singapore, a Sikh person. Originates from the innocuous Punjabi word meaning brother but in this sense it is offensive
• Bhaiya – India, actually meaning brother, it refers to people native to the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh
• Bihari – (India), refers to a person from Bihar and Jharkhand, often used to denote a person who is illiterate and backward.
• Binda – Derisively applied towards Middle Easterners
• Bindi – An person with Indian descent
• Black pillar box – U.K., a Muslim woman who wears a burka
• Black velvet – Australia, an Aboriginal prostitute
• Blackhead – U.K., an Arab
• Blizzard – a bunch of white people
• Boat niggers – U.S., Cuban people, or anyone from the Caribbean seeking asylum in the U.S.
• Boat people, boaties – Australia, sea-borne illegal immigrants of any nationality (In the 1970s usually Vietnamese, today mainly Afghans and Iraqis)
• Bog trotter – UK, Irish people
• Bög – Swedes, used by Finns (Actually Swedish for a homosexual male)
• Bogan – Australia, universal term for white redneck. Some parts of Australia use equivalent terms such as Westie (Sydney term - as many live in the city's western suburbs) and Bevan (Queensland term)
• Bohunk – U.S., 1890s, a person from east-central Europe, especially a laborer (compound of Bo(hemian) + Hung(arian)).
• Bok gwai – Cantonese, a white person. Literally means "white ghost"
• Bolillo – Mexico, white people (bolillo is a white bread roll)
• Boofer – Hawaii, Polynesian word equivalent to nigger
• Boong – Australia, Australian aboriginal. Highly offensive
• Boonga – New Zealand, a pacific islander ("boo-nger")
• Boonie – New Zealand, a pacific islander
• Border Jumper – U.S., an illegal Mexican immigrant
• Boris – U.S., a Russian immigrant
• Bosniak –person from Bosnia, regardless of religion(Deemed highly offensive to non-muslims in bosnia)
• Bozgor – Romania, a Hungarian esp. living in Romania
• Bounty bar – U.S., a black person who acts like a white person
• Boy – Southern U.S. whites and South African whites, a black man
• Bubble – U.K., Greek (cockney rhyming slang "bubble and squeak")
• Brit – U.S, A British person, not usually offensive.
• Brown sugar – U.S./U.K., a black woman, not offensive - this term is used liberally in the Rolling Stones song of the same name
• Bule – Indonesian term for a white person, roughly translates as "pigskin"
• Buddhahead – African Americans in Eastern U.S., an asian person
• Bulgar – a Bulgarian person (derives from the tribe of barbarians that invaded the balkans)
• Burner – derived from Wagonburner, Canada, for native Canadians
• Bumpkin – Australia, white person, usually living in rural area. Equivalent term of hillbilly
• Bushie – South Africa, a Coloured

C

• Cafflick – Scotland, a Catholic
• Camel jockey – U.S., someone of Middle-eastern descent
• Canuck – U.S. and Canada, a Canadian national. Not considered offensive by most Canadians.
• Cardboard nigger – US Blacks, a black person "selling out" to the whites or not acting "black"
• Carpet bagger – US Southerners, a Northerner who moves to the South.
• Carlton – U.S., refers to Carlton Banks: a black character from the sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" who "acted white".
• Casper the Unfriendly Ghost – U.S. Asians, a naughty white person
• Cave bitch – U.S., from an Ice Cube song about white women
• Celestial – Australia, 19th century, Chinese
• Cereal – a person from Syria (uses an "a" for singular form, and an "s" for plural) Also, brands of cereal are used.
• Chakh-chakh – Israel, a Mizrahi Jew. Used by Ashkenazi Jews and integrated Israelis to ridicule the preservation of the pharyngeal (guttural) pronunciations of Hebrew consonants ח ħêth and ע ‘áyin by Mizrahi Jewish immigrants
• Chalala – France, young trendy Jew.
• Chapata / chapat – US Indian and Pakistani, a person of Oriental (Chinese, Japanese etc.) origin. Word is derived from Hindi 'chapata' meaning 'flat', used to refer to flat nose and facial features.
• Charlie – U.S., a Vietnamese person (shortened from radio code for the Vietcong (V.C.): "Victor Charlie"); term also used by African-Americans (mainly in the 1960s and 1970s) to refer to a white person (from James Baldwin's novel Blues For Mr. Charlie)
• Charles – U.S. generalization, an Asian person (derived from Charlie)
• Cheese-eating surrender monkeys – U.S./international, French (from perceived French cowardice in military situations)
• Chefur – Person from Balkans, usually one from former Yugoslavia.
• Cheese-Head – U.S., a person from Wisconsin
• Chinaman – International, person of Chinese or generally of Asian descent
• Ching chong – U.S./Australia, someone of Chinese descent; term directed at Yao Ming by Shaquille O'Neal in highly-publicized incident in 2002
• Chink – U.S./U.K., someone of Chinese descent
• Chocko – Australia, ethinc person of dark/olive complexion, usually of Mediterranian extraction
• Chocolate drop – U.K., a black person
• Chogee – Australia, someone of Asian descent
• Chongo/chango – (also "mono") U.S. Hispanics, a black person ("chongo/chango" is Spanish for "monkey")
• Chopperflops – Canada, generalization, an Asian person
• Chow – Australia, 19th century, Chinese
• Chowie – U.K./Australia, someone of Asian descent
• Chug Canada, a native Canadian
• Christ-Fucker – a Christian person, usually referring to Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, or Presbyterian
• Christ-killer – used in some Christian cultures, a Jewish person
• Choong – Australia, Vietnamese or Cambodian immigrants
• Chuntaro – Mexico,U.S., a rural Mexican immigrant
• Claip – an Amish person (origin uncertain; more commonly used as a verb, in the present participle – claipping – to refer to an act of harassment against the Amish, especially stoning an Amish-driven buggy as it passes along a road, particularly at night)
• Clog or cloggy – used in some cultures, a Dutch person (from their supposed wearing of clogs)
• Clog wog – used in Australia for a person of Dutch origin, not always offensive
• Coca – Portugal, a Mozambican (usually white), shortened from the word Coca-Cola.
• Cochise – U.S., a Native American, after Cochise, a Chiricahua Apache warrior chief who resisted white usurpation of Indian land
• Cockroach – U.S., a Mexican immigrant
• Cockroach – Germany & U.S. midwest, a Frenchman
• Coco – U.K., a black person, New Zealand, a Pacific Islander(shortened from coconut)
• Coconut – U.S./U.K./Australia, a black or Hispanic person who is perceived to act "like a white person" (a coconut is dark on the outside but white on the inside); New Zealand, a Pacific Islander
• Colored – South Africa, a person of multiracial descent
• Conchy Joe – Bahamas, a white native whose ancestors were slave-owning Loyalists; can be used jokingly and without negativity to refer to any white Bahamian
• Convict – Australia, white/anglo Australian, used by aboriginal and ethnic Australians, derived from the first European settlers on the First Fleet in 1788
• Coolie – South African whites, a South African of Indian descent
• Coon – U.S. and Australia, a black person, from the practice of using dogs trained to hunt raccoons to track runaway slaves
• Coonass – degrading term projected to Cajun people
• Commie – US, a Russian. Sometimes used to refer to a Chinese individual
• Cosmopolite – Soviet Union, a Jew
• Cotton picker – U.S., a black person
• Cracker – U.S., a white person, esp. one in the South or Appalachia with a poor, rural background. Derogatory, though sometimes used self-referentially and interchangeably with "good ol' boy"
• Crick-Crick – U.S., a Japanese tourist - usually with cameras, from the sound of the camera shutter
• Criminal – U.K. and N.Z., an Australian (see also convict)
• Crusader – Islam, a person from a country were Latin Christianity is dominant (North America and Western Europe)
• Cuff – U.S., a black person
• Curry muncher – Australia and New Zealand, an Indian person
• Curry – Australia and New Zealand, an Indian person (shortened from curry muncher)

D

• Da Bi Zi – Big noses: Chinese slur used to denote Caucasian people
• Dago – (also "dag") U.S., someone of Italian descent (originally derived from the Spanish name Diego, it was applied to Spanish, Portuguese or Italian sailors)
• DagoWop – U.S., (a combination of two slurs)an Italian
• Darkie or darky – various, someone with dark-colored skin; also a racist, iconic caricature with inky-black skin, googly eyes and exaggerated red, pink or white lips
• Darkness – various, someone with dark-colored skin (from skit on David Chapelle's comedy show featuring Rick James)
• Diaper head – United States, someone of Middle Eastern descent, or another person that wears a turban
• Didicoy – UK, gipsy
• Ding – Australia?, an Italian
• Dinge – US, a black person
• Dog eater – U.S., someone of Filipino or Korean descent
• Dog muncher – U.S., someone of Korean descent
• Don – England, a Spaniard (from the Spanish title) (Common use in Elizabethan times)
• Donny Brasco – an Italian person
• Dot or Dot-head – U.S., someone of South Asian descent (from the Hindu practice of wearing bindis)
• Double Dutch / Dutch courage – U.S./U.K., inferior attributes for Dutch people
• DWO – "Driving While Oriental" – U.S., referring to Asian drivers, perceived to be poorer drivers than others
• Dune coon – US, someone of Middle Eastern descent
• Dutchman – English-speaking South African whites, used for Afrikaner

E

• Egg – a white person who "acts" like an Asian (white on the outside, yellow on the inside)
• Eggplant – North-eastern U.S., a black person
• Elbow – an Albanian person (derives from the other slur, "Albo")
• Elvis – U.S., overweight southerner with unexplainable sex appeal (for example Bill Clinton)
• Esse – U.S., someone of Hispanic descent
• Ethnic – Australia, someone whose ethnicity is not of Northern European decent or indigenous decent, someone eles
• EuroNazi – U.S., Europeans, referring to Europe's history of dictators, communists, nazis, and imperialism
• Europhile – U.S. Any European, especially mainland Europeans, who are perceived as sexually promiscuous and overly passive
• Eurotrash – U.S./U.K., Europeans gatecrashing society by trading on false claims of wealth, titles of nobility etc.
• Euro-weenies – U.S., Europeans, particularly French, who don't support instances of US foreign military intervention
• Eyetie / Eye-talian – U.S., someone of Italian descent

F

• Fabio – Italian person
• Faj – Black person; used primarily in South African prisons by white people
• Farang – Thailand, non asian person
• FBI – Boston, for "Foreign Born Irish" who immigrate and immediately take high-paying white collar jobs
• Feather head – U.S., a Native American
• Feuj – France, a jew (Verlan of Juif)
• Fender head – U.S., an Asian
• Fig newton – a white person who acts black. Opposite of Oreo
• Filippa – Italy, a Filipina
• Fisheyes – U.S. Asians, a white person
• Fjord nigger – Alaska, an Alaskan Native of the Tlingit tribe
• Flattie U.K. traveller community, someone of fixed abode
• Flip – U.S., from US troops during the Philippine-American war "Fucking Little Island People"; someone of Filipino descent
• Flea – a person person of Yugoslavian descent (derives from the fact that the majority of the Yugoslav names end in "ich" or "itch", when a flea bites, you itch)
• Fob, FOB, F.O.B. – U.S., a recent Asian immigrant; Canada, any recent immigrant; New Zealand a pacific islander (from Fresh Off the Boat); Also used by US-born Samoans to refer to recent arrivals
• Fog-Breather – U.S., British person
• Forby – Australia, a Jew. Rhyming slang, forby is short for four-by-two, a piece of wood four inches by two, commonly used in building (Now obsolete)
• Franchute – Spain, a French national
• Franco – french person
• Frenchy – U.S., a person with French roots
• Fritz – U.K. and France, a German
• Frog or froggie – U.S./U.K., a French national
• Fucking Jew Scum – U.S / British, a Jewish person
• Fuckoff – France, a British youth
• Fuzzy wuzzy – Australia/NZ, a Melanesian (usually Papuan or Solomon Islander)

G

• Gabacho – Spain, a French national
• Gachupín – Central America, a Spaniard
• Gadjo/gadji – Gypsy, a non-Gypsy male/female
• Gaijin – Japan, any non-Japanese person
• Gavacho – Mexico, a white person (See gabacho)
• Gallego – Argentina, Cuba; a Spaniard (literally "Galician")
• Geek – Greek person(singular only)
• Geep– U.S, an Italian (From Pinocchio's "father" Gepetto, who was Italian)
• Germ Man – a german person (using the bacteria form of germ)
• Ghati – (India) in general, any Maharashtrian; else specifically Maharashtrians from Satara, Sangli and Kolhapur
• Ghetto monkey – U.S., a black person
• Ghost – China (Qing Dynasty), a foreigner, esp. a Japanese person (white people were "ghosts from the seas")
• Ghost – Sub-Saharan Africa, a white person
• Ghostbuster – an asian who beats up on whites.
• Ghundi – A derogatory term for an Indian or South Asian (from Gandhi)
• Gicho or jicho – Spain, a Gipsy (from gitano)
• Gin – Australia – an Aboriginal woman
• Gino – Canadian – a young man of Mediterranean descent who acts in a macho fashion
• Ginzo– U.S; An Italian-American
• Goatfucker – used by the late filmmaker Theo Van Gogh to denote muslims
• Goat roper – U.S. southwest, white people (mostly hicks and/or suburban cowboys)
• Gobbler – A Turkish person (gobble = Turkey)
• Goddams (Les); medieval France; Englishmen, after the common exclamation uttered by them.
• Godo – Canary Islands, "Goth", a Peninsular Spaniard.
• Goita – Catalan countryside, a Barcelonese city-dweller (from Catalan goita, "look!")
• Golliwog(g) – British or U.S., a dark-skinned person, after Florence Kate Upton's children's book character
• Gook – U.S. military slang since the Korean War, applied initially to Koreans and later to Vietnamese during the Vietnam War; It derives from Hanguk, the Korean name for Korea
• Goomba – various groups, An Italian person
• Gorilla – a big, fat black person.
• Goy – Jews, a non-Jew or a Jew that does not practice Judaism; (Goy, plural goyim, is the standard Hebrew and Yiddish word for a non-Jew and is not intended to be offensive when used in those languages)
• Greaser – U.S., someone of Latin American descent, esp. Mexican
• Greaseball – U.S., an Italian person
• Grease monkey – U.S., Italian, or any other mediterranean person (Note that the same term is used for a motor mechanic)
• Greegi – Greek person
• Gringo – Latin America and Spain: Non-Hispanic U.S. national Hence Gringolandia, the United States; Not a pejorative term, unless used in an offensive manner (of course); For Brazilians, any foreigner
• Gubba – Australia – Aboriginal term for white people
• Guido – US, someone of Italian descent (a genuine Italian first name)
• Guinea – U.S., someone of Italian descent (Derives from "Guinea Negro", which came from the popular belief that Italians were part african because of their darker skin)
• Gwailo – also spelled "gweilo"; a Cantonese term for Caucasians (Similar to the entry above for ghost)
• Gyppo – UK, Romany peoples, short for 'Gypsy' (see below); Also, UK and Australian military, Egyptians, sometimes used affectionately, but "bloody Gyppo" was a term of abuse
• Gypsy – A Sinti or Roma (Not Universally Regarded as Offensive), also an Armenian

H

• Habib – U.S., someone of South Asian (e.g., Indian or Pakistani) descent
• Hairyback – English speaking South Africans, an Afrikaner
• Hajji – an Iraqi, Arab, Muslim, or occasionally other nonwhite, used by US occupation forces; one soldier notably wrote "Hodgie killer" on his footlocker (See Hajj for non-offensive usage). Not to be confused with Hadji of Jonny Quest
• Half-Breed – U.S., a multiracial person
• Halfrican – U.S., a multiracial person of partial black descent ("half-African"); sometimes self-applied
• Hankee Yankee – U.S. Asians, a white southerner
• Haole – native Hawaiians, a non-native white person
• Happy Slave - US/UK, an Irish immigrant
• Harp - US, an Irishmen
• Heeb – U.S., a Jewish person (Short for Hebrew)
• Heinz 57 - U.S., a person of indeterminate racial or national origin
• Hervat – a croatian person. From "Hrvatska", the croatian word for croatia
• Hick – U.S., rural person, generally uneducated, similar to yokel
• Hillbilly – U.S., a rural white person, esp. one from Appalachia
• Hindoo – Australia, 19th century, Indian
• Hindy – An person with Indian descent, or a person who practices Hinduism
• Hok gwai – Cantonese, a black person; Literally means "dark ghost"
• Holy roller – U.S., evangelical Christians
• Honger – North America, a person from Hong Kong
• Honky – also spelled "honkey" or "honkie", U.S. blacks, a white person (derived from "hunkie")
• Hori – New Zealand, a Maori
• Hoser – A Canadian, particularly one who drinks a lot of beer and spends much of his time urinating (hence "hose")
• al-Hufa – (Arabic language: the barefoot) the West Bank, a person from the East Bank
• Hymie – also spelled "heimy", U.S. blacks, a Jewish person, especially from New York City ("Hymietown")
• Hun – Allies in WWI, a German soldier; also Irish nationalists, a British nationalist (See Huns for non-offensive usage)
• Hungaro –Mexico, a person of Roma descent. See Gypsy
• Hungo – a person of Hungarian roots
• Hunkie – U.S., someone of Hungarian descent

I

• Ian – an Armenian person, since almost every Armenian has a "ian" at the end of their name.
• Ice mutant – black supremacists, a white person
• Ice Nigger – a native canadian person (Eskimo, Inuit, ect.)
• Inbred – Referring to the stereotype that people from Appalachia have sexual intercourse with their family members.
• Injun – a Native American, from "Indian"
• Ireng – means black; a Malay slur for Africans or Papuans
• Island Nigger – a person from any of the West Indian islands

J

• Jack Mormon – Western U.S., an LDS-born person who has left the church
• Jafa – a resident of Auckland New Zealand
• Jap – U.S./U.K., someone of Japanese descent
• Japo – U.S./U.K., someone of Japanese descent
• JAP – U.S., Jewish women (Jewish American Princess)/Aust., spoilt Jewish adolescents (Jewish American Prince or Princess)
• Jawa – U.S., sand people, someone of Middle Eastern descent. See also sand monkey
• Jerry – UK, a German national
• Jewgene – US Northeast, esp. New York, a Jewish person that acts Italian
• Jewop – US, Jewish Italian
• Jigaboo, jig – U.S., a black person
• Jihadist – a Muslim
• Jock – UK, Scottish person
• John Chinaman – Australia, 19th century, Chinese
• Jook-sing – a Westernized Asian
• Jungle bunny – U.S. whites, a black person

K

• Kaffir – South African whites, a black person
• Kalla / kaalu / kalia – US Indian and Pakistani, a black person. Derived from the Hindi word 'kaala' meaning black.
• Kani – Iceland, an American, particularly an American serviceman, from the Icelandic word "Amerikani"
• Katsap – the Former Soviet Union, a Russian person.
• Keling – Malaysia and Singapore, an Indian person. Very offensive.
• Khokhol – the Former Soviet Union, a Ukrainian person.
• Kike – U.S., a Jewish person, possibly derived from the fact that, for religious reasons, illiterate Jewish immigrants would sign their name with a circle, instead of the cross or X used by illiterate immigrants of other backgrounds (Yiddish keikl="circle").
• Kim Chi – unflattering term for a Korean, from the hot pickled Korean cabbage known for its offensive smell
• Kiwi – New Zealand nationals, derived from the fact Kiwi birds originate there.
• Kraut – U.S./U.K., a German national
• Kugel – South African whites, an affluent Jewish woman

L

• Lanscaper – person from Ukraine or Poland (both of which sound like a structure of land, or something that builds land, ie.uCRANE, POLEand.)
• Landscaper – US, a Mexican
• Lapp – a Sami. Derogatory Swedish for "patch"; the Samis wearing clothes which in the eyes of the Swedish colonist looked like patchwork. In Sweden normally used without derogatory meaning but often taken as derogatory. Used widely throughout the world without understanding of its alleged derogatory nature.
• Lebo – Australia, Lebanese. Considered highly offensive to the point of being a 'fighting word'.
• Leprauchaun – Irish person (usually one with red hair, pale skin, and freckles.)
• Levee rat – degrading term projected to Cajun People and people of the swamp
• Lewinsky – U.S., a promiscuous Jewish woman - usually overweight and/or unattractive (also a term for fellatio)
• Limey – U.S., a British national – British sailors ate limes to prevent scurvy
• Long nose – China, a person of European descent See Da Bi Zi
• Lysol – Canada, a Native Canadian. Named due to Native Canadians' perceived chemical dependance about household cleaners.

M

• Mac – U.S., a person of Scottish descent (from the common surname form MacXxxx)
• Macaque – Belgium (French) – a Moroccan; derived from macaque
• Macaquito – Argentina (Spanish) – a Brazilian; derived from the Portuguese word macaco (monkey)
• Mall honky – an indiscriminate white consumer.
• Makak – Belgium (Dutch) – a Moroccan; derived from macaque
• Maketo – Basque Country, a Spaniard
• Makhla – US Indian and Pakistani, a person of Mexican origin
• Maco, Maconie – a Macedonian person (can also be spelled "Mako")
• Madrasi – (India) any South Indian person.
• Mangia cake – Canada – used by Italians of a person of northern European descent
• Mara – Mexico, El Salvador, Originally a Salvadorian term used to decribe a street gang, in Mexico it is used to describe any person from central america associated with street gangs
• Maria – Mexico, a native american woman
• Mario – U.S., Italian person. (also "Luigi" is used)
• Mat Salleh – Malaysia and Singapore – a white person; derived from mad sailor.
• Mau-mau – U.S./U.K., a black activist
• Mayate – U.S. hispanics, Spanish equivalent of nigger
• M.A.W.P – North America; Murder All White People, Used by minorites to indicate their hatred of white people.
• Med-Wop – U.S; Any Mediterranean Person not from Italy(Greece, North Africa, Spain, South Balkans, Portugal, Malta, and Turkey).
• Mehmet – (Turkish Cypriot) – a mainland Turk. Mehmet is a Turkish derivitive of Mohammed.
• Mexicans – Australia. In Sydney, a term used for people arriving from Victoria, which is south of the Murray River (analogous to the Rio Grande). A humorous term not intended to be offensive, but sometimes taken that way. Also a Queensland term referring to those from New South Wales.
• Mexican't – U.S., an unemployed or low-paid Mexican immigrant, commonly illegal workers
• Midnight – a black person (used only in singular form)
• Mick or Mickey – U.S., a person of Irish descent (from the common surname form McXxxx)
• Mohammedan – a Muslim. Considered impolite and offensive because it would seem to imply that Muslims worship Mohammed.
• Mojado – Southwestern U.S.; used primarily by Hispanic-Americans. "Mojado" is the Spanish word for wetback (an illegal immigrant from south of the border).
• Molly Mormon – Western U.S., an unflattering term for the stereotypically bubbly and submissive LDS homemaker housewife in pioneer-stock LDS culture in the western U.S.
• Mollywog &ndash UK & Canada; a dark skinned or negro female (also "Molly Wog")
• Monkey – U.S., a black person
• Mongrel – a multiracial person
• Moolie – U.S., a black person; used primarily by Italian-Americans. "Moolie" is short for mulignane, which means eggplant in the Neapolitan dialect (presumably because the eggplant is so dark that it reveals a purplish tint, similar to many blacks).
• Moon cricket – U.S., a black person
• Moro, moraco – Spain, a Moor, but see Moro.
• Mountain nigger – a person from Montenegro.
• Mrs. Simpson Egypt, 1930s and 40s, an English woman (after the Duchess of Windsor). Intended to be highly insulting when shouted at English women in the street.
• Mudbone – U.S., an elderly black man (from Richard Pryor's character of the same name)
• Mud person – U.S. white supremacists, a non-white person (usually seen in the plural form as mud people)
• Munt – South Africa, a black person
• Mutt – a multiracial person

N

• Nam'er– North America , A person of Vietnamese descent
• Naga – U.S., a black person (Naga stands for North American Ground Ape, used by the LAPD during the Watts riot in LA). But also see Naga.
• Natasha – India, an Uzbek prostitute working illegally in Mumbai. Turkey, Russian prostitute.
• Nazi – North America, Europe, etc., a German person or extremely strict authoritarian.
• Newf – Canada, a person from Newfoundland
• Newfie – Canada, a person from Newfoundland, can be used as a term of pride
• NFN – U.K., Normal for Norfolk, implying learning difficulties due to inbreeding in isolated fen communities.
• Nigger – U.S./U.K., a black person (also "niggra", southern U.S. pronunciation; "nigga", Ebonics). Also historically used towards Native Americans, Hawai‘ians, Filipinos, mulattoes, so-called "Melungeons", or generally any people deemed "colored" compared to "white" Anglo-Saxons. Considered to be extremely derogatory.
• Niglet – A young, usually under 10-years-old, black child.
• Night fighter – U.S., a black person
• Nig-nog – U.K., a black person (adapted from niknok, see below)
• Niknok – Netherlands, Dutch word equivalent to nigger
• Ninja – U.S., a Muslim woman. But also see Ninja.
• Ninny – U.S., a black person (short for pickaninnie)
• Nip – U.S., someone of Japanese descent (from Nippon, an Anglicization of the Japanese name for Japan)
• Nish – Canada – an Aboriginal Canadian (from Anishinabe, the Ojibwa word for "Ojibwa")
• Nordstrom Rack – White women with breast implants (fake breasts)

O

• Oaxaquilla – (Pronounced oajakija) Mexico, originally an term describing someone form the mexican state of Oaxaca has become a term term describing any person of native descent who is dark complected and speaks a native language
• Octoroon – 19th century U.S., a person of 1/8 Black ancestry (also octoon)
• Ofay – African Americans in Eastern U.S.(through early 1970s), a white person (pig latin for 'foe' or enemy)
• Okie – 1930s California, an uprooted or evicted farmer fleeing to California to find a better life. It was a derisive term, immortalized in the historical fiction novel The Grapes of Wrath. Short for "Oklahoman".
• Olive Nigger – Greeks (Greece is renowned for its olives.) Is also sometimes used for southern Italians.
• Opie Cunningham – U.S. blacks, a white boy (coined by Eddie Murphy to describe Ron Howard)
• oreo – U.S., someone of black and white descent (or a black person who "acts white" – see Carlton)
• Oreo Cookie – U.S., someone of black and white descent (or a black person who "acts white" – see Carlton)
• Osama – U.S., any Arab, turban-wearer, Muslim, Middle Easterner, South Asian or person of complexion similar to Middle Easterners or South Asians. An extremely derogatory slur. It is however an Arabic person name.
• Outsider – Alaska, a person from the lower 48.
• Oven dodger – Australia, a Jewish person

P

• Paddy – U.K./U.S., an Irish person (from the popular Irish diminutive of "Patrick"); term is also sometimes used by Mexican-Americans – particularly in Southern California – to denote any white "Anglo", regardless of specific ethnic ancestry
• Pahadi – India, a person living in the Himalayan foothills.
• Papist – Protestants, a Roman Catholic person
• Pakeha – Maori, a New Zealander of European descent (not necessarily widely-regarded as offensive)
• Paki – U.K. and Canada, a Pakistani or other South Asian (regarded as offensive)
• Palongi – Tongan, a White person (short for Papalongi).
• Patel – U.S., a South Asian, especially an Indian, and particularly one who owns or manages a hotel or motel (Patel is a very common surname in the Indian state of Gujarat, located in the west-central part of the country, many immigrants from which own and operate lodging establishments in the U.S., especially small, independently-owned ones)
• Payo – Spain, a non-Gypsy
• Pea soup – Canada – a French-Canadian
• Peckerwood – U.S., a white person, especially Southern whites
• Pedigreed – U.S., racially & ethnically pure WASP
• Pepsi or pepper – Anglophone Canadian, a French-Canadian (from popularity of Pepsi-Cola in Quebec, where this soft drink outsells Coca-Cola — possibly the only place in the world where this is true)
• Perp – U.S., a black person - short for perpetrator (criminal suspect)
• Pickaninnie, pickaninny – U.K./U.S., black child
• pilgrim – African Americans in Eastern U.S.(currently in use), a white person
• Pied Noir – French for "Black Feet", A Moroccan, Algerian or other North African
• Piney – U.S. (New Jersey), a poor white person living in the sandy, coastal pine forests known as the Pine Barrens. Usually living in substandard housing or trailers in areas often hit by forest fires. An inferior form of white trash.
• Pinko – Japan, a Russian person; also, US/Canada, social democrat
• Polack – U.S., a person of Polish descent. German, Pole. Ironically, the word for "Pole" in the Polish language is "Polak".
• Polaco, – Spain, a Catalan (literally "Polish")
• Polar Bear – a big, fat, white person
• Pole Humper – a Polish person
• Pom, pommie, pommy – Australia/New Zealand/South Africa, a British national. Originally short for pomegranate (possibly). Also attributed as "Prisoner of Mother England". It is often used affectionately and is not usually considered offensive. Many English migrants to Australia call themselves "ten pound poms", because they paid ten pounds for their passage to Australia in the 1950s. Often combined with an adjective, particularly whinging pom, a reference to British migrants who complained about their adopted country.
• Pongo – U.K., a black person
• Popolo – Hawaii, a black person
• Porch honky – U.S., lazy white person
• Porch monkey – U.S., a black person
• Pork chop – U.S./Canada, a Portuguese person
• Portagee – Eastern U.S., a person of Portuguese origin
• Potato – Canada, a black person who "acts" like a white (brown on the outside, white on the inside).
• Potato Eater – UK & North America, an Irish person or a person of Irish descent
• Prairie nigger – U.S. and Canada as of late: a Native American or Canadian. Held to be in very poor taste if used around these people.
• Prod – Scotland, a Protestant
• Proddy, Proddy dog – Australian Catholics (particularly school kids), term for Protestants, particularly rival kids from Protestant schools.
• Punjab / Punjabi – U.S. - Reffering to people of Indian descent
• Push start – U.S., someone of South Asian descent (from the Hindu practice of wearing bindis)

Q

• Quadroon – 19th century U.S., a person of 1/4 Black ancestry. Now obsolete.
• Quaker – a white person
• Queue Jumper – Australia, illegal migrant
• Quickie Mart – U.S., a convenience store operated by a person from Southwest Asia or the Subcontinent (from the Simpsons - see Apu)
• Quintroon – 19th century U.S., a person of 1/16 Black ancestry. Now obsolete.

R

• Rabbit – U.S., a black person, said to have rabbit blood.
• Raghead – U.S., someone of Middle Eastern descent. U.K., a Sikh, or any East Indian.
• Raisinette – U.S., a child born of a black-white, mixed race relationship.
• Raton – France, a North African Muslim (from the French augmentative for "rat")
• Ravo – Launceston, Tasmania, a bogan from the suburb of Ravenswood.
• Red Fella – Russian person
• Redneck – U.S., an rural, unrefined white person (esp. a person from a southern state)
• Redskin – now obsolete, a Native American
• Ricain – France, an American
• Rican – U.S., a Puerto Rican
• Rice king/queen – A white person who dates Asians.
• Rice Nigger – Asians
• Rice picker – a filipino, viet, cambodian, or any other south-east asian.
• Ritz cracker – U.S., a rich caucasian man or woman
• Roast beef or rosbif – France, a British person
• Rock ape – U.K./Australia, a black person
• Rock spider – English-speaking South Africans, an Afrikaner (although in Australia, rock spider means child molester)
• Rooinek – Afrikaners, an English speaking South African
• Rootless cosmopolitan (Russian: bezrodnyj kosmopolit) – Soviet Union (late Stalin era, 1948-1953), a Jew
• Round eye – Asia, a white person
• Round hair – U.S., a black person
• Rug pilot – U.S., a person of Middle Eastern descent (from the image of the flying carpet)
• Russki – U.S., a Russian national

S

• Sambo – U.S./U.K., a black person
• Sand monkey – U.S., someone of Middle Eastern descent
• Sand Nazi – U.S./Israel, someone of Middle Eastern descent
• Sand nigger – U.S./Israel, someone of Middle Eastern descent
• Sapphire – U.S., an attractive black woman (from the Amos & Andy shows)
• Scarecrow - US. a black person who skis
• Schemie - UK. someone who lives in a Housing Scheme, i.e. a slum. Scottish in origin.
• Schwarzer - Germany & U.S. (especially among American Jews), a black person
• Schwoogie - US Northeast, esp. New York, a black person
• Scuro – used by certain Italo-Canadians to refer to a black person ("scuro" is Italian for "dark")
• Sea Kaffir - South African, person of Portuguese descent
• Sephardi – International Ashkenazi Jewry, any non-Ashkenazi Jew. Not inherently vulgar nor derogatory, but considered ignorant when used towards true non-Sephardi Jews, particularly when referring to Mizrahi Jews. However, many Mizrahi Jews in modern Israel colloquially call themselves "Sephardi" anyway.
• Seppo – Australia/U.K., an American (from septic tank, rhyming slang for yank)
• Serabian – a Serbian.
• Serburbian – a person of Serbian descent
• Sernitz – Serbia, a black person
• Shegetz - Jews, a young non-Jewish man
• Sheister – U.S., a Jew . However, "shyster" today is more often a derogatory reference to lawyers, especially those of questionable ethics, regardless of their ethnic origin.
• Sheeny – a Jew
• Sheepfucker, sheepscrewer, sheepshagger and other variations on this theme – England, a Welshman; Australia, a New Zealander; USA, a Scot; etc.)
• Shiksa - used as a disparaging term for a non-Jewish girl or woman
• Shina – a Japanese term for "China" that most Chinese people find deeply offensive, while some Japanese people disagree
• Shiptar – an Albanian person, also "shit-tar" is used.
• Shit-kicker – U.S., a white person from the southwest (ex: Oklahoma)
• Skunk – U.S., someone of Middle-eastern descent
• Skinny – U.S., First (?) used in Starship Troopers for an alien race. Used by U.S. and other western militaries for Africans, especially Somalis.
• Skip – Australian – a white Australian of British descent – from the TV show Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. Among ethnic youth, "skip" is the opposite of "wog".
• Slant-eye, slit-eye – U.S., a person of Asian descent
• Slapface – Australia, a person of Asian descent
• Slapped A Yamulke – American, a person with stereotypical Jewish facial features, from "slapped with a yamulke" at birth
• Slob – Russian, ie. person of Slavic heritage
• Slope – a person of Asian descent
• Snowback – U.S., a Canadian refugee who flees his/her Motherland for the warm climate of Florida.
• Snow flake – U.S. blacks, a white person
• Snowman – white person
• Snowplow – U.S., a black man's nose
• Sons of Heaven – Australia, 19th century, Chinese
• Soviet – a person from Russia.
• Space Ghost – U.S. Asians, A white person perceived to have limited mental capacity. From a superhero character.
• Spade – U.S., a black person (from the black spades on playing cards)
• Spaghetti-bender – U.S., Italian
• Spic or spick – U.S., a person of Hispanic descent - from "no spickie english"
• Spook – U.S. whites, a black person
• Spear-chucker – U.S. whites, a black person
• Spudfucker U.S., an Irish person (from the famous Irish commodity, potatoes)
• Squarehead – A German or a Norwegian
• Stani – a person from central asia with the country's name ending in "Stan" (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc.)
• Sudaca – Spain, a Latin American, a play on sudamericano and sudar (to sweat)
• Suicide Bomber – a Muslim Person
• Surrender monkey – U.S., a French person
• Sushi-chugger – U.S., a Caucasian American who likes to partake in oral sex with Japanese girls
• Swamp honky – U.S. southwest, similar to white trash – white residents around the Louisiana/Texas border (also "swamp trash")
• Swamp nigger – degrading term projected to Cajun people and people of the swamp.

T

• Taffy – U.K., a Welsh person. From the Taff River or the name Dafydd. Children's rhyme: "Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief."
• Taig – Northern Ireland Protestants, a Catholic
• Tar Baby – U.S., a black child
• Tartar, Tar-Tar – a Tatar, offensive mispelling.
• Telefono – Colombia – a black person. Term originated before the 1960's when the time when most telephones were colored black.
• Tête carrée – Canada – a Canadian of British descent ("square head", used by French-Canadians)
• Terrorist – a person from the middle-east, sometimes is used for a person from south eastern europe.
• Terrier – U.S., an Irish laborer
• Thanksgiving – U.S., a person of Turkish descent. Used solely as an adjective. ie. "Thanksgiving Muther-fucker".
• Tommy – German, Used for the British in WW2
• Tonto – U.S., a Native American (refers to the sidekick on "The Lone Ranger")
• Towelhead – U.S., anyone who wears a head turban. Derisively applied towards Middle Easterners and Muslims, but rarely applied against people who wear other types of turbans.
• Turban Cowboy – U.S. Southwest, a middle easterner or muslim trying to assimilate into the local community
• Turkish Love Slave – Armenian
• Trailer trash – U.S., a rural white person living in a trailer park; cf. white trash
• T.W.A.. U.S., a national of a developing country who works professionally in the U.S. Short for "Third World assassin".
• T.W.E. – Eastern European (from Third-World-European) For short, "Tweety" is used.
• Twinkie – U.S./Canada, an Asian person who is "yellow on the outside, white on the inside" (similar to "banana" above). Twinkie (slur) is also used by some American Indians to describe a white person who claims to be a American Indian, claiming to be a shaman, a healer, etc, with little or no connection to any tribe via social or blood links.

U

• Ukie – Ukrainian. Also used by Ukrainians as an ironic term of endearment
• Uncle Tom – U.S. blacks, term for someone who panders to white people; a "sellout" (taken from Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin")

V

• Viet – a Vietnamese person
• Vodka Pisser – Russian person
• Vus-vus – Israel, an Ashkenazi Jew. Used by non-Ashkenazi Jews towards Ashkenazi immigrants to Israel during the mass-aliyah after World War II. From "Vus? Vus?" meaning "What? What?" in Yiddish.
• Vut* – a Russian, because the russian immigrants said "vut" instead of "what" when asked something in english.

W

• Wagonburner Canada, for native Canadians
• Walpeople – U.S., working-class whites...from whites perceived to shop at Wal-Mart.
• Wap – U.S., a white person who "acts" Japanese, by analogy to wigger.
• Wasp – White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Offensiveness questionable as many "wasps" self-identify as such (originated as shorthand term in sociology)
• Welfare monkey – U.S., a black person
• Wetback, wetter – U.S., an illegal Mexican immigrant (presumably having swum across the Rio Grande),
• Wetback Samoan – American Samoa, a Samoan from West Samoa who has moved to American Samoa (from "wetback" used for Mexicans in Texas, West Samoans must travel over a strait to reach American Samoa)
• White boy – U.S., any white
• White cracker – U.S., a white person
• White Devil – U.S., (originated with Nation of Islam) a white person
• White Negro – US/UK, an Irish immigrant
• White out – a bunch of white people
• White trash, also poor white trash – U.S., a rural white person
• Whitey – U.S., a white person
• Whopper – Denmark, an American tourist - usually overweight, called after the popular hamburger
• Wigger – U.S./U.K. a white person who "acts" black
• Wiglet – U.S., a teenage or younger white person who is perceived to "act black"
• Windchime – U.S., a black person (windchimes are hung out in the open) cf. apple
• Wog – U.K., a dark-skinned national of a Colonial British colony; also Australia, an aborigine, or Mediterranean-European (especially Greek or Italian) person (or any foreigner). From the term "Gollywog". In Australia the term, once very offensive, has been appropriated by second-generation ethnic youth and is used humorously or with pride, as in "wog culture" and the successful comedy show Wogs Out of Work.
• Wonder Bread Wop – U.S Italians; an Italian that acts white (does not make home-made pasta, did not grow up in italian neighborhood, does not have accent or does not use Italian-American slang, etc.).
• Wop – U.S., an Italian immigrant (from guappo , although popular etymology gives the origin as: WithOut Passport) – although some reckon the acronym as "WithOut Papers" or "Without Official Papers", suggesting undocumented status (however, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe were far more likely to lack conclusive documentation than those from Italy during the peak period for immigration of both to the U.S., which straddled the late 19th and early 20th Centuries)
• Wrap head – a person who wears a turban.

X

• Xarnego or charnego – Catalonia, an immigrant from the rest of Spain, especially, Andalusia or Extremadura.

Y

• Yank/Yankee – Originally used by the New York Dutch to refer to the English (Jan Kees means "John Cheese" in Dutch), it has gradually broadened in meaning. In the northern U.S., it means a traditional New Englander of English stock. In the southern U.S., it means any northerner. Outside the U.S., it means any American, as in "Yankee go home." Spelled "Yanqui" in Spanish. "Yankee" also is a signalling code for the letter Y.
• Yankee Doodle, Americans
• Yard ape – U.S., a black person; cf. porch monkey
• Yellow peril – Australia/New Zealand, an Asian immigrant
• Yid – U.K., A Jewish person (came from Yiddish language)
• Yo-yo – U.S., a black person (yo-yos hang from strings) cf. windchime
• Yuca – Young Urban Cuban American, a term used to refer to Cuban-Americans with values and beliefs more similar to mainstream USA than to the values of their Cuban parents.
• Yugo – a Yugoslav person (from the car "Yugo" which was cheap and broke down easily)
• Yugoshit – A person from the former Yugoslavia, using the word "yugo" and saying literally "You go shit".

Z

• Zig – U.S., a black person (short for zigaboo)
• Zip – an Italian immigrant who is fresh of the boat.
• Zhid – Russia and ex-USSR, a Jewish person (a Polish word for a Jew turned slur in Russian language)
• Zipperflaps – Canada, generalization, an Asian person
• Zipperhead – U.S., a Chinese person
• Zebra – a partly white, partly black person

Related articles

• Offensive terms per nationality, groups the terms by nationality
• Hate speech
• List of sexual slurs
• List of political epithets
• List of common phrases based on stereotypes
• List of words meaning outsider, foreigner or 'not one of us'
• Term of disparagement
• List of ethnic group names used as insults

External links

• Racial slur Database : RSDB
• The Racial Slur Database

• Ethnic slurs