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19th century slum, London. It is thought [16] that slum is a British slang word from the East End of London meaning "room", which evolved to "back slum" around 1845 meaning 'back alley, street of poor people.'
Lists of pejorative terms for people include: List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names; List of religious slurs; A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs; List of age-related terms with negative connotations; List of disability-related terms with ...
This is a list of slums. A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat , is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between ...
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. Pages in category "Homophobic slurs" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
An estimated 170,000 people were living in slums in 1992. [173] In Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city and main port, around 600,000 people in the early 1980s were either squatting on self-built structures over swamplands or living in inner-city slums.
In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...
Pejorative terms related to the social class of the people involved. Pages in category "Class-related slurs" The following 71 pages are in this category, out of 71 ...
(US) A person from the State of Oklahoma, used during the great depression for farmers from Oklahoma looking for work elsewhere. Peckerwood (US) a white person (southerner). This word was coined in the 19th century by Southern black people to refer to poor white people. [106] Pink pig (South Africa) a white person. [47] Whitey (US) a white person.