beaner

[Wilson Gray]

On 6/10/07, Frank Abate <FABATE at cinci.rr.com> wrote:
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> Recording for all the derogatory/disparaging expression:
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>             "brown as a beaner"
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> This is heard pretty commonly around here (Cincinnati area) in reference to
> people from Mexico.  It is NOT complimentary, in the using of it OR (esp.)
> in the receiving,
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> Just opening this up for discussion.  DARE has beaner, but not the simile.
> I'm not sure if Spears has it in one of his phrases or slang dictionaries.
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FWIW, the phrase is not in Spears 2001, _Slang and Euphemism_, 3d ed.
He has both "bean(er)" and "brown" as referring to various
Spanish-speaking groups, though.

-Wilson

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