词汇 | greaser |
词源 | greaser. A derogatory offensive name for Mexicans and Mexican-Americans first recorded in 1836 in what is now Tex- as. Greaserdom is a derogatory historical name for New Mexico. An unlikely explanation says that greaser derives from men hired by Mexican freighters to run alongside their wagons and grease the wooden axles. |
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