词汇 | ethnophaulism |
词源 | ethnophaulism. A term for ethnic slurs, ethnophaulism was coined (from the Greek phaulos, “ugly”) by A. A. Rodack in the subtitle of his authoritative Dictionary of International Slurs (1944). Such insults—usually cheap humor—have been known since the earliest times and still prevail. The Irish call the En- glish names, the English insult the French, the French defame the Germans, and so on ad infinitum, or ad nauseam. |
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