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Redeck vs Redneck - What's the difference?

redeck | redneck |

As a verb redeck

is to fit (a bridge) with new platforms.

As a noun redneck is

(slang|pejorative) an uneducated, unsophisticated, or poor caucasian person, typically used to describe residents (of any gender[http://wwwhit-country-music-lyricscom/redneck-woman-lyricshtml country music lyrics new country tunes]) of the rural southern us.

redeck

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To fit (a bridge) with new platforms.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 12, author=Anthony Ramirez, title=Road Worker Dies in a Fall From a Bridge in New Jersey, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The $270 million redecking project is set to end in 2009. }}

    redneck

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, pejorative) An uneducated, unsophisticated, or poor caucasian person, typically used to describe residents (of any gender Country Music Lyrics New Country Tunes) of the rural Southern US.
  • (slang) The nickname given to miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921. West Virginia Division of Culture and History
  • (UK, archaic) The nickname given to Roman Catholics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

    • Synonyms

    * cracker, hick, hillbilly, peckerwood, white trash

    Derived terms

    * redneckish * redneckism * rednecky

    References

    English ethnic slurs