backra

And the resulting poor-whites were labeled in Barbadian dialect through the centuries in many ways, of which Collymore, probably himself a descendant of one of them, lists many: backra, buckra, ecky becky, poor backra, redleg, spawgee; but he neither indicates the derogatory status of these names nor makes any effort to offer etymologies.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 2 1991