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ethnophaulism|ɛθnəʊˈfɔːlɪz(ə)m|
[f. ethno- + -phaulism, f. Gr. ϕαύλισµα disparagement, contempt, f. ϕαυλίζω to hold cheap.]
A contemptuous expression for (a member of) a people or ethnic group; an expression containing a disparaging allusion to another people or ethnic group.
1944A. A. Roback Dict. Internat. Slurs 13, I can visualize, however, a future edition which would contain more extended inventories of the foreign disparaging allusions (or as I have named them, ‘ethnophaulisms’) in a score of languages. 1962E. B. Palmore in Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. Jan. 442 (title) Ethnophaulisms and ethnocentrism. 1963R. I. McDavid Mencken's Amer. Lang. vi. 367 The English have fewer strangers within their gates, and hence their native armamentarium is smaller, and not a few of the achthronyms (or ethnophaulisms) they use come from the United States. 1977H. Giles et al. in H. Giles Lang., Ethnicity & Intergroup Relations xiii. 342 The use of spoken ethnophaulisms is also..a common tactic used by dominant groups in order to demean members of subordinate groups. 1980Logophile IV. i. 15/2 Gillian Edwards examined..a range of ethnophaulisms..from ‘Greek trust’ (no trust at all) to ‘Dutch courage’. |