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ASIAN



CHINESE



DUTCH

  • Dutch Auction , a special form of multiple-item auction where each winning bidder pays the same price per item (In Dutch, the term is "Chinese auction")




  • Dutch Uncle , a term for a person who sternly lectures, comments or criticizes with unsparing severity and blunt frankness, to educate, encourage or admonish someone, often with benevolent intent, as though an elder relative or "uncle."


  • Dutch Wife , a prostitute or a sex doll (from Japanese usage)


  • Double Dutch , talk or writing that is nonsense or that you cannot understand. Referring to the difficult and hard to understand Dutch Language .


  • Dutch Oven , passing gas whilst in a confined area in an attempt to intensify the effect of the odor on those around you.




FRENCH


  • French letter, slang term for condom.

  • French pox, slang term for Syphillis .

  • French whore ("you smell like a French whore"), a term for someone who smells strongly of cheap Perfume or Aftershave .



IRISH

  • Irish Twins , two siblings born within the same year (9 to 12 months apart) based on the stereotype that the Irish had/have too many children. {Link without Title}

  • Paddywagon , based on the stereotype that most cops and/or criminals in the United States were Irish or of Irish descent in the 19th century. {Link without Title}

  • Irish Confetti, A brick or other object thrown during a fight or riot.



JEWISH


  • Jew down, to haggle or negotiate a better price (from the stereotype that Jewish people are miserly with money.)

  • Jew someone out of something, to cheat them

  • Jewish car wash, taking your car for a drive in the rain to get it clean, rather than pay for it to go through a car wash {Link without Title}



ROMA ("GYPSY")



WHITE

  • White Trash , a term of insult directed at American whites who are from rural areas and/or have a low socio-economic status and/or a less than college education. {Link without Title}


  • Cracker , a term of insult directed at American whites who are from urban or suburban areas and have a high socio-economic status and/or higher than a college education.



UNITED KINGDOM

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  • Mondeo man, equivalent to " Essex Man ", a derogatory term for an unsophisticated working class man. The name comes because of the popularity of the Ford Mondeo car among lower socio - economic groups in the UK, widely associated with the Chav stereotype. It was also used by New Labour politicians who wanted to win over working - class voters from the Conservative Party. {Link without Title}



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