English Dictionary

poor white trash

noun

(US, obsolete, ethnic slur, used by black slaves) White person or people employed in a servile position, for example, as a butler.

She looked down on him because he came from a family of poor white trash.

意味（1）

(US, obsolete, ethnic slur, used by black slaves) White person or people employed in a servile position, for example, as a butler.

In the south, there are no servants but blacks; for the greater proportion of domestics being slaves all species of servitude whatever is looked upon as a degradation; and the slaves themselves entertain the very highest contempt for white servants, whom they designate as ‘poor white trash’.]

意味（2）

(US, modern, derogatory, ethnic slur) White trash; poor, uneducated white person or people of low social status.

Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?