Injuns

What do we mean by injuns?

A Native American.

A casual American or Canadian corruption of the term "Indian", referring to Native Americans. The earliest Europeans thought they had landed in India and applied "Indian" to the indigenous population. "Injun" more commonly heard during a period when the term "Indian" was used, often pronounced in later years only by children. Not typically meant as derogatory, as American "Indians" came to be admired during the latter period of common usage. Rarely used today, if so used in a typically light-hearted if politically-incorrect fashion. Can be derogatory given intent and inflection. Urban Dictionary

N. derogatory term for a native american. Urban Dictionary

An American Indian, (or "Native American" in more colloquial English), as opposed to an Asian one. Urban Dictionary

A racially offensive epithet used towards Native Americans. However, Columbus was wrong, this racial slur was in fact meant for inhabitants of India and has now been recently claimed at the University of Washington. Modern equivalent of "Nigga", except its used to refer to Indians who, thanks to Kumar, are finally in mainstream American culture. Can be used in reference to other people who are "down with the brown". This EVEN includes white people, as long as they're tight with some Indians. Urban Dictionary

A redneck term for indian (the native american kind) Urban Dictionary

I was told this from great-great-grandparents, which I believe is absolutely the true orgin of the word Injun. It is not from "lazy" word pernunciation by trying to say Indian. The word Injun is a contraction from the word indigenous, and spelled like the phonetic sound of the contraction. So "Indigenous", INdiGENous, INGEN, INJUN. Urban Dictionary

Racist slur toward a person of native american heritage. See also ijin ; it's spelt this way so that it doesn't sound like it's mistaken for "engine". Urban Dictionary

A very derogatory term used by southern whites against Native Americans. It is really a distortion of "Indian" of which many of these people are too dumb to pronounce, hence the word "injun". This word is to Native Americans as "Nigger" is to African-Americans. Also as "Honky" is to Whites. And also how "Chink" is to Asian people. All of this still goes on today. (Sarcastic Talk here> What a wonderful world! Urban Dictionary

A Derogatory term used for Indians, whether the native americans or the people of the country India (Bharat). Urban Dictionary

A racially offensive term for Natives of North America. However, as Dr. Samir Patel affirms vis-a-vis people of East Indian descent, young North American Natives have recently reclaimed the term and use it the way our Black brethren use "Nigga." Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to injuns:
injuns, injun.

Adjectives that are often used to describe injuns:
little, wild, other, good, bad, more, dead, hostile, many, red, most, poor, few, big, dem, real, damn, damned, friendly, darned, honest, fer, enough, fit, homesick, brutish, drunken, keener, riled, western, wust, wooden, goddamn, scalping, seein, tame, worst.

Words that sound like injuns:
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