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Arab
noun- used as a term of mild abuse UK: SCOTLAND
There is no racist intent in this term, deriving as it does from “street Arab”, an obsolete term for a homeless child. - In Glasgow, this has been a term of abuse since even before the rise of the oil sheikhs: “Get lost ya Arab ye!” — Michael Munro, The Original Patter, 1985
- a dolt BERMUDA
- — Peter A. Smith and Fred M. Barritt, Bermewjan Vurds, 1985
- a street peddler selling fruit or vegetables US, 1935
A fixture and term from Baltimore. - — Frederic G. Cassidy, Dicitonary of American Regional English, Volume 1, p. 82, 1985
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