ecthronym

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noun

A derogatory name used to describe an out-group; an ethnic slur.

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Meanings

nounecthronym (plural ecthronyms)

plural ecthronyms

  1. A derogatory name used to describe an out-group; an ethnic slur.

    Within the group, we use ecthronyms for people who are financially or socially below us.

    1946, A. A. Brill, Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry, Alfred Knopf, page 150
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