skraeling

A negative conotation referring to native americans. A very offensive term used by the vikings to describe the red indians.

Vikings named the native americans skraelings. However, another word "skrullinger" is a modern norwegian word for "primitive ones". Perhaps the natives were so primitive that the Vikings had to name them what they were. The pilgrims who came hundreds of years later named them Indians, perhaps the pilgrims were uneducated.

Pronunciation: /skrailIN/ skr - ay - ling, like the "ay" in day

The word is used to refer to anyone who listens to rap music and speaks Ebonics or more professionally called African American Vernacular English — and who also exhibits many characteristics of stereotypical urban African Americans. The term is used to refer to a member of any race, including blacks and whites. A related term is Skraespeak, which is used to refer to the African American dialect.