different between leatherneck vs redneck

English

Etymology

From leather +? neck.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?ð?n?k/

Noun

leatherneck (plural leathernecks)

1. (slang) A soldier.
2. (US) Specifically, a marine.
   • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 318:

     The Marine Corps has instituted a martial-arts program in which leathernecks are indoctrinated in a new code of honor, the Ethical Marine Warrior.

English

Etymology

Compound of red +? neck. Compare rooinek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???dn?k/

Noun

redneck (plural rednecks)

1. (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A poor, rural, usually white and male, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and northeast, especially one who is unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.
2. (historical, slang, US) Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
3. (historical, slang, US) A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
4. (Britain, archaic, 19th and 20th centuries) A Roman Catholic.

Synonyms

• bogan (Australia), cracker, hick, hillbilly, peckerwood, white trash

Derived terms

• redneckish
• redneckism
• rednecky

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