List of common phrases based on stereotypes
This is a list of common
American and
English words and phrases based on racial, ethnic, religious, regional or other
stereotypes.
All should be presumed derogatory and offensive until proven otherwise.
- Chinaman's chance, having no chance at all.\n* Chinese compliment, pretending to acknowledge the opinions of others, while going forward with an already made decision.\n* Chinese copy, a duplicate that replicates something perfectly, including errors\n* Chinese firedrill\n* Croydon facelift\n* Cry like a girl\n* Dutch courage, drunken bravery\n* Dutch fuck, lighting a cigarette with another lit cigarette to save the extra match\n* Dutch treat\n* Dutch uncle\n* Eskimo kiss\n* Greek sex, anal sex\n* Free, white and 21 (and therefore can do what one wants)\n* French kiss (not offensive -- there is a French verb frencher meaning this type of kiss)\n* French leave, to go AWOL or disappear stealthily, presumably retaliatory for French filer anglais\n* French letter, condom\n* Gyp, to cheat, from Gypsy\n* Indian giver\n* Irish confetti, a thrown or tossed stone or brick\n* Irish twins\n* Mighty 'white' of you sarcastic African-American expression meaning 'that's big of you' see Play the White Man, below\n* Mongoloid\n* New York snowball, a snowball with a brick or chunk of something hard hidden in the middle.\n* Nigger-rigged described improvised or poorly-done work. The phrase Jury- or Jerry-rigged is now usually substituted.\n* Normal for Norfolk\n* Paddywagon\n* Play the white man\n* Puerto Rican blond badly dyed hair, or a woman with the same\n* Scottish kiss\n* Southern hospitality\n* Trailer trash\n* Welsher (Welcher), from Wales, meaning "renege on a bet"\n* White Trash ironically, although the term is used as an insult to ill-bred Caucasians, it is now often considered racist because of the implication that it would be natural for "Whites" to be well-bred\n* Yankee ingenuity
See also
\n* List of ethnic slurs\n*
List of sexual slurs\n*
Term of disparagement\n*
Non-sexist language