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To: marktwain
'evil little toe-rags'

Is this slang, or an indication of ethnicity?

8 posted on 07/10/2008 5:00:15 AM PDT by mathluv
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To: mathluv

It’s Brit slang. “toe rag” is a derogatory term used mainly for lower class, ill-behaved white Britons. It has no ethnic slant.


9 posted on 07/10/2008 5:03:46 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (Guarding humanity against things that go bump in the night.)
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