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- noun pejorative Someone who is backwards, lacking refinement and culture.
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Borrowed from Polish bydło ("cattle") in online culture as a derogatory term to designate someone who is considered backwards; compare the connotative uses of redneck and sheeple.
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In Polish: (1) Bydlo bylo, bydlo bedzie (It was cattle, it remains cattle); (2) Podawala baba babie przez piec malowane grabie (A woman handed the woman over the stove a painted rake); (3) Chrzaszcz brzmi w trzinie (The beetle buzzes in the pipe).
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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