Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Used as a disparaging term for a person of Polish birth or ancestry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Pole; a Polander.
- noun A name given to the Jews of the Polish provinces, by their Lithuanian coreligionists. The former, in turn, call the latter
Litvaks (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Polander.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
Pole , or person ofPolish descent. - noun obsolete Formerly in non-offensive use.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person of Polish descent
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And avoid calling anybody a "Polack" as he deemed fellow analyst Ron Jaworski — albeit playfully — during ESPN's draft coverage.
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From what I heard, I missed the usual ridiculous bombast, including Millen calling Ron Jaworski a "Polack" and subsequently having to apologize on the air.
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I complained to station manager Eric Johnson that the word "Polack" was derogatory, an ethnic slur.
Jersey Guys: Sen. Lesniak a 'gay Polack politician' Dan 2007
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I complained to station manager Eric Johnson that the word "Polack" was derogatory, an ethnic slur.
Archive 2007-02-01 Dan 2007
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By the same token, 'Polack' is quite simply the term -- in Polish -- for a male Polish person.
"When Mexicans come north as illegal immigrants, we call them wetbacks." Ann Althouse 2007
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I ` m a Polish-American, and I ` ve been called "Polack" many times.
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I started reading the first quarto of _Hamlet_, sucking the juices out of every u/v and extra e and the handwritten annotation 'Polack' against _pollax_... until I remembered I had far more urgent things to do and mustn't get out the folio text to compare.
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Ryan had a discordant memory of the "Polack" jokes so popular when he'd been in high school, but managed not to relate any to the assembled throng.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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The mother was found to be a very intelligent woman and explained to the officer that her boy had been constantly angered and practically spoiled at school; that it had been ground into him that he was nothing but a "Polack," and that no good thing was to be expected of him.
The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work Allan Hoben
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"Polack" which is an offensive term to someone of Polish descent.
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For more information about "polack" and Polish jokes, see the documentary film, Polack, at http://www.polackthefilm.com
February 16, 2011