Meaning of poor white trash | Babel Free

Definitions

1. White person or people employed in a servile position, for example, as a butler.
   US, ethnic, obsolete, slur, uncountable
2. A poor, uneducated white person or group of people of low social status.
   US, derogatory, ethnic, modern, slur, uncountable

Examples

“In the south, there are no servants but blacks; for the greater proportion of domestics being slaves all species of servitude whatever is looked upon as a degradation; and the slaves themselves entertain the very highest contempt for white servants, whom they designate as ‘poor white trash’.”

““Huccome po’ w’ite trash buy any niggers? Dey ain’ never owned mo’n fo’ at de mostes’.””

“Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?”

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