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How about some Cold War abuse: commies, pinkos, russkies? (This last is typical of the way people take an endonym, like russkiy or Polak, and turn it into a pejorative.)

Bilby, that nails it! I'm totally going down under (that's not dirty, is it?)!

Do you refer to America (among other things...)as up-over?

For the record, they don't wear towels on their heads. They're actually more like little sheets. I'm sure that the folks who wear them would appreciate it if we would take the time to be accurate and refer to them instead as little sheet heads.

What about towelheads? It's an awful word, but I still see it written on bathroom stalls sometimes.

I remember the same comics yarb, good suggestion. Camel racing is quite a thing in some places dc, even in Australia.

I'm part camel jockey/sand scratcher, according to some folks. Camel jockey gives me an visual of the Kentucky Derby with camels and dunes...funny! Sand scratcher just makes me think of a litter box.

Squareheads and hun were words commonly used to refer to the Germans in the WW2 comics I read as a nipper (inherited from Dad, dating from the 50's). Hun was usually prefixed with "the dirty". You already have Fritz and krauts.

I have changed the focus of this list a bit. De-humanising the enemy is what it's about. I'm not particularly fascinated by racial abuse for its own sake.

...What does it mean that my first thought on reading pomegranate's comment was not "oh, that's horrible, look at all those nasty words," but instead, "that's not how that word is spelled"?

Sigh. At least I found a home on Wordie.

Then there are spics, wops, dagos, polacks, micks, haolis (sp?), honkeys, and bigots!

I can't think of a silk cut -nym but my inner neologist is starting to twitch.

Is there a -nym word for such expressions? A misonym? misethnonym? Maybe the best would be misoxenonym (a name for others we hate).