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Where does “white-trashy” come from?

white-trashy (English) comes from English Y, from English yuri, from Japanese 百合, from Japanese 連用形, from Japanese 見る, from Japanese 夢, from Old Japanese 夢, from Japanese 目.

white-trashy (English): Resembling or characteristic of white trash

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of white trash

Ancestry of “white-trashy”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishYA figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A...
2EnglishyuriA narrative or visual work featuring a romance or...
3Japanese百合lily; a style of 襲の色目 , featuring a red outer...
4Japanese連用形an inflectional category: the continuative or...
5Japanese見るto see, to watch, to observe, to look at...
6Japanese夢a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state...
7Old Japanese夢a dream
8Japanese目an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger...
9Middle Chinese目—
Every word from Middle Chinese 目 →