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!Meaning origin and notes
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|<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-11-11|title=Socialist Worker page|url= http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/archive/1705/sw170512.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111111115440/http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/archive/1705/sw170512.htm|archive-date=2011-11-11|access-date=2019-09-12}}</ref>
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|Mackerel
|[[North America]]
|Roman Catholics
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|[[Mick]]
|[[United Kingdom]]
|Irish
|Usually an Irish Catholic (a reference to the common "Mc" patronymic of Irish surnames, or a [[hypocorism]] of "Michael").
|<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dalzell|first1=Tom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h0mcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA514|title=The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English|last2= Victor|first2= Terry|date= 2014|publisher= Routledge|isbn= 9781317625124|page=514|access-date=16 February 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150216042716/https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=h0mcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA514|archive-date=16 February 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>
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|[[Papist]]
|[[Northern Ireland]], [[North America]], [[U.K.]] in general
|Roman Catholic
|Usually Irish Catholic; online often used generically for any Catholic.<ref name="Simpson">Simpson, ''Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang'' "papist"; Share, Bernard (2005), p. 237.</ref>
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|[[North America]]
|Roman Catholics
|A name given to Catholics for their keeping so many holy days
|<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kersey|first1=John|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zFBgAAAAcAAJ&q=%22Red%20letter%20tribe%22&pg=PP219|title=A New English Dictionary|date= 1772|language=en}}</ref>
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|Bead-rattler
| Anglophone countries; predominantly the United States, U.K., Canada, and Australia
|Roman Catholics
|Roman Catholic person, in reference to the Catholic ritual of praying with [[rosary beads]].
|<ref name="guardianbead">{{cite news |last1=Greenslade |first1=Roy |title=Scots paper runs full-page apology for an insult to 'bead-rattling' Catholics |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2008/apr/22/scotspaperrunsfullpageapol |access-date=5 October 2024 |agency=The Guardian |date=April 22, 2008}}</ref><ref name="thetimeshorne">{{cite news |last1=Horne |first1=Marc |title=Sectarian march organiser posted anti-Muslim slurs online |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/sectarian-march-organiser-anti-muslim-slurs-online-xxxlzmhww |access-date=5 October 2024 |agency=The Times |date=March 5, 2024}}</ref><ref name="dalzell">{{cite dictionary|last1=Victor |first1=Terry |last2=Dalzell |first2=Tom |title=Bead rattler|dictionary=The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English |date=1 December 2007 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-203-96211-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=abYBCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT765&dq=%22Bead+rattler%22 |language=en}}</ref>
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|Redneck
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|[[Romanism|Romanist]]
|Predominantly North America and the U.K.
|Roman Catholics
|Term used when [[anti-Catholicism]] was more common in the United States, as well as in Northern Ireland by [[Ulster Protestants]]
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|[[Northern Ireland]]
|Irish Catholics
|From {{Lang|ga|tadhg}}, perhaps [[Irish language|Irish]] for "Timothy".
|<ref>Simpson, "teague"</ref>
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|<ref>{{Cite web|title=dexonline|url=https://dexonline.ro/definitie/jidan|access-date=2022-02-09|website=Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române.}}</ref>
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|[[Kike]]
|[[United States]]
|Jews
|Possibly from the [[Yiddish]] word for '[[circle]]', {
|<ref>Leo Rosten: ''The Joys of Yiddish'', cited in [https://web.archive.org/web/20080602102925/http://kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu/Dictionary/kike.htm Kim Pearson's ''Rhetoric of Race''] by Eric Wolarsky. [[The College of New Jersey]].</ref><ref>Encyclopedia of Swearing: Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in the English Speaking World/ Geoffrey Hughes. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2006</ref>
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|Mocky
|[[United States]]
|Jews
|First used in the 1930s, possibly from the Yiddish word {
|<ref name="OxfordEnglish1137">{{cite book|last1=Stevenson|first1=Angus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=anecAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1137|title=Oxford Dictionary of English|date=2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199571123|page=1137|quote=ORIGIN 1930S: perhaps from Yiddish ''makeh'', 'a plague'.|access-date=12 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213143649/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=anecAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1137|archive-date=13 February 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=English contemporary dictionary - Mocky|url=http://english_contemporary.enacademic.com/121122/mocky|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212201807/http://english_contemporary.enacademic.com/121122/mocky|archive-date=12 February 2015|access-date=12 February 2015|website=enacademic.com|quote=mocky adj. (Offensive slang) Jewish, of or pertaining to the Jewish religion or race in a derogatory manner}}</ref>
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|<ref name="Ahmed-2021">{{Cite web |last=Ahmed |first=Hilal |date=2021-07-15 |title=Indian Muslims have come to terms with Hindutva. They are now looking for survival strategies |url=https://theprint.in/opinion/indian-muslims-have-come-to-terms-with-hindutva-they-are-now-looking-for-survival-strategies/696179/ |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=ThePrint |language=en-US}}</ref>
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|[[Kadrun (
|[[Indonesia]]
|[[Islamic fundamentalism]] and reactionaries
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