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|APA Style – Socioeconomic status [https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/bias-free-language/socioeconomic-status]
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|Charitable donations of food or money to the poor or those considered unable to look after themselves
|Charitable donations of food or money to the poor or those considered unable to look after themselves
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|Historic England - Disability Glossary
|Historic England - Disability Glossary [https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/disability-history/about-the-project/glossary/]
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|A destitute person seeking money or help from members of the public
|A destitute person seeking money or help from members of the public
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|Historic England - Disability Glossary
|Historic England - Disability Glossary [https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/disability-history/about-the-project/glossary/]
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|'''bridewell/s'''
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|Originally a type of hospital, first established in the 16<sup>th</sup> century for the improvement of the ‘idle poor’. Eventually became houses of correction for beggars and petty criminals
|Originally a type of hospital, first established in the 16<sup>th</sup> century for the improvement of the ‘idle poor’. Eventually became houses of correction for beggars and petty criminals
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|Historic England - Disability Glossary
|Historic England - Disability Glossary [https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/disability-history/about-the-project/glossary/]
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|BBC – Stop use of ‘chav’
|BBC – Stop use of ‘chav’ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7509968.stm]
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|'''guttersnipe'''
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|A ‘street urchin’, or someone from the lowest social or economic class; a vagrant or homeless person
|A ‘street urchin’, or someone from the lowest social or economic class; a vagrant or homeless person
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|Word Hippo - Guttersnipe
|Word Hippo - Guttersnipe [https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/guttersnipe.html]
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|Homeless is generally acceptable as an adjective to describe people without a fixed residence. Avoid the term "the homeless." Instead: homeless people, people without housing or people without homes. Mention that a person is homeless only when relevant.
|Homeless is generally acceptable as an adjective to describe people without a fixed residence. Avoid the term "the homeless." Instead: homeless people, people without housing or people without homes. Mention that a person is homeless only when relevant.
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|Paula Froke - AP Stylebook
|Paula Froke - AP Stylebook [https://twitter.com/APStylebook/status/1266057234213220352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1266057234213220352%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.curbed.com%2F2020%2F6%2F11%2F21273455%2Fhomeless-people-definition-copy-editing]


APA Style – Socioeconomic status
APA Style – Socioeconomic status [https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/bias-free-language/socioeconomic-status]
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|'''idle poor'''
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|In its early English sense referred to people considered unable to look after themselves for reasons of age, infirmity, or disability. The “impotent poor” were distinguished from the “able bodied” poor in legislation
|In its early English sense referred to people considered unable to look after themselves for reasons of age, infirmity, or disability. The “impotent poor” were distinguished from the “able bodied” poor in legislation
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|UK
|Historic England - Disability Glossary
|Historic England - Disability Glossary [https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/disability-history/about-the-project/glossary/]
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|The Marshall Project [https://www.themarshallproject.org/2021/04/12/what-words-we-use-and-avoid-when-covering-people-and-incarceration]
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|Cataloging Lab - Problem LCSH  [https://cataloginglab.org/problem-lcsh/]
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|Someone, especially a young child, who is poorly or raggedly dressed
|Someone, especially a young child, who is poorly or raggedly dressed
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|Word Hippo - Mudlark
|Word Hippo - Mudlark [https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/mudlark.html]
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|APA Style – Socioeconomic status [https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/bias-free-language/socioeconomic-status]
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|'''ragamuffin'''
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|Refers to a dirty, shabbily-dressed child
|Refers to a dirty, shabbily-dressed child
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|Word Hippo - Ragamuffin [https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/ragamuffin.html]
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|'''tatterdemalion'''
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|Refers to a person dressed in rags
|Refers to a person dressed in rags
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|Word Hippo - Tatterdemalion [https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/tatterdemalion.html]
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|Cataloging Lab - Problem LCSH [https://cataloginglab.org/problem-lcsh/]


<nowiki>https://archive.curbed.com/2020/6/11/21273455/homeless-people-definition-copy-editing</nowiki>
Curbed [https://archive.curbed.com/2020/6/11/21273455/homeless-people-definition-copy-editing]
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|'''Unskilled labour/ers'''
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|Cataloging Lab - Problem LCSH [https://cataloginglab.org/problem-lcsh/]
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|Avoid language that focuses on blaming the individual or on individual deficits
|Avoid language that focuses on blaming the individual or on individual deficits
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|APA Style – Socioeconomic status
|APA Style – Socioeconomic status [https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/bias-free-language/socioeconomic-status]
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|'''white trash'''
|'''white trash'''
|US term for lower class white people
|US term for lower class white people
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|Wikipedia – List of ethnic slurs
|Wikipedia – List of ethnic slurs [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs]




NPR – Why is it still ok to ‘trash’ poor white people?
NPR – Why is it still ok to ‘trash’ poor white people? [https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/08/01/605084163/why-its-still-ok-to-trash-poor-white-people]
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Latest revision as of 11:30, 23 November 2023

Term Contextual note Time/Region References
able bodied poor
achievement gap APA Style – Socioeconomic status [1]
alms

alms person

almsman

almswoman

Charitable donations of food or money to the poor or those considered unable to look after themselves UK Historic England - Disability Glossary [2]
bankrupt
beggar/s

bag lady

bag man

bag woman

bagman

bagwoman

beachcomber

beggarman

beggarwoman

bludger

borrower

Cadger

chav

Dawdler

derelict

derro

dosser

down-and-out

down-and-outer

freeloader

grifter

hanger-on

leech

mendicant/s

mooch

moocher/s

mosquito

outcast/s

outcaste/s

palliard

panhandler/s

parasite/s

scroat

schnorrer

scrounge

scrounger/s

sorner

sponge/s

sponger/s

starveling

street dweller

street people

streety

sundowner

supplicant

swagman

tussocker

quandong

A destitute person seeking money or help from members of the public Historic England - Disability Glossary [3]
bridewell/s Originally a type of hospital, first established in the 16th century for the improvement of the ‘idle poor’. Eventually became houses of correction for beggars and petty criminals Historic England - Disability Glossary [4]
bum/s

stumblebum

bindle stiff

deadbeat

busker/s

busking

street performance

First noted in the English language in the 1860s. From the Spanish root word buscar, meaning “to seek”.
chav/s

chavvy

BBC – Stop use of ‘chav’ [5]
dosser Refers to a homeless and jobless person
ghetto

ghettoes

inner city

APA Style – Socioeconomic status [6]
guttersnipe

street urchin

A ‘street urchin’, or someone from the lowest social or economic class; a vagrant or homeless person Word Hippo - Guttersnipe [7]
have-not/s

have not/s

haves

hick/s US term for ‘unsophisticated or uneducated people from the countryside’
hobo/s

hoboes

homeless

the homeless

the projects

Homeless is generally acceptable as an adjective to describe people without a fixed residence. Avoid the term "the homeless." Instead: homeless people, people without housing or people without homes. Mention that a person is homeless only when relevant. Paula Froke - AP Stylebook [8]

APA Style – Socioeconomic status [9]

idle poor
impotent In its early English sense referred to people considered unable to look after themselves for reasons of age, infirmity, or disability. The “impotent poor” were distinguished from the “able bodied” poor in legislation UK Historic England - Disability Glossary [10]
inmates The Marshall Project [11]
itinerant
job seeker/s

job-seeker/s

the unemployed

juvenille delinquent

enfant trouvé

gutterpup

hooligan

minx

mischief-maker

orphan

prankster

punk

rapscallion

rascal

tearaway

wastrel

whippersnapper

Cataloging Lab - Problem LCSH  [12]
less educated

high school dropout

Focus on what people have, not what they lack
low class people

low-class people

laboring class

labouring class

mudlark Someone, especially a young child, who is poorly or raggedly dressed Word Hippo - Mudlark [13]
needy

the needy

ne’er do well

never do well

good for nothing

no-good

no good

no goodnik

pariah

castaway

castoff

dogie

drifter

exile

flotsam

gamin

jetsam

loafer

mudlark

outcast

perisher

person non grata

puck

recluse

reprobate

scallywag

scapegrace

scarecrow

stray

tearaway

tyke

urchin

waif

wretch

pauper/s
pikey/s
poor

the poor

poor people

poverty

destitution

pov

poverty stricken APA Style – Socioeconomic status [14]
ragamuffin Refers to a dirty, shabbily-dressed child Word Hippo - Ragamuffin [15]
tatterdemalion Refers to a person dressed in rags Word Hippo - Tatterdemalion [16]
tramps

Trampy

The great unwashed

Scally

urchin Refers to someone, especially a young child, who is poorly or raggedly dressed
unhoused person/people Cataloging Lab - Problem LCSH [17]

Curbed [18]

Unskilled labour/ers

Unskilled labor/ers

Cataloging Lab - Problem LCSH [19]
vagabond/s
vagrant/s

vagrancy

weary willy
welfare reliant Avoid language that focuses on blaming the individual or on individual deficits APA Style – Socioeconomic status [20]
white trash US term for lower class white people USA Wikipedia – List of ethnic slurs [21]


NPR – Why is it still ok to ‘trash’ poor white people? [22]

workhouse