Used As A Pejorative
In modern Russian, Turkish, Persian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, and Estonian, lumpen, the shortened form of lumpenproletariat, is used to refer to lower classes of society. The meaning of the term is roughly analogous to scrounger, riff raff, hoi polloi, white trash, bogan, or yobbo. In Slovene language, the word 'lump' means 'rascal' or 'scamp', while in Serbian language the word usually used is 'fukara'.
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