different between redneck vs woolhat

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

Translations

References

English

Etymology

wool +? hat

Noun

woolhat (plural woolhats)

1. (US) A yokel or redneck.
   • 1964, K. B. Gilden, Hurry sundown: Volume 1

     We're woolhats, red necks, white trash, crackers, the scum of the earth, the filth under their feet.

   • 2002, Will D. Campbell, The Stem of Jesse: The Costs of Community at a 1960's Southern School

     While it is easy for the sophisticates of today to assume the objection to racial integration came only from uneducated woolhats...