Lebanese vs. Wog — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Lebanese and Wog
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Lebanese
Of or relating to Lebanon, its people, or their culture.
Wog
Wog is an offensive and derogatory term in Australian English and British English usually applied to people from the Mediterranean region and Middle East, such as Southern Europeans and North Africans. In British English, it may also sometimes apply to people from the Indian subcontinent and certain other parts of Asia, such as the East Indies.
Lebanese
A native or inhabitant of Lebanon.
Wog
Used as a disparaging term for a person of color, especially a person from northern Africa or western or southern Asia.
Lebanese
A person of Lebanese ancestry.
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Wog
Any person who looks in-between "white" and "black": originally specifically an Indian, but later also broadened to anybody of Middle Eastern or Mediterranean descent.
Lebanese
A native or inhabitant of Lebanon
Wog
Specifically someone of Mediterranean descent; the word does not really have an "Indian" connotation in Australia.
Lebanese
Of or relating to or characteristic of Lebanon or its people;
Lebanese mountains
Wog
Abbreviation of polliwog
Wog
A pollywog, or sailor who has never crossed the Equator.
Wog
A bug, an insect.
Wog
A minor illness caused by bacteria, virus, intestinal parasite, etc.
Wog
A toy insect in parts that can be assembled, used in fund-raising games.
Wog
(Scientology) A person who is not a Scientologist.
Wog
(Of soldiers stationed abroad) to sell something, especially illicit or stolen goods, to the local inhabitants.
Wog
To steal.
Wog
An offensive slang term used by the British to refer to people of color from Africa or Asia
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