diffrent words

[marshlander]

Another example of an insult in American that means something completely harmless in English is "cracker".

To us, a cracker is a biscuit that you put either butter and/or cheese (and sometimes other things) on ... or something that you have around the table at Christmas that you pull and which contains a prize - a "Christmas Cracker".

In America, however, I believe the term is a rude way of describing a white person ... ??

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"Cracker" was also a term used to describe a stunningly beautiful woman (back when I were a lad, of course ). More recently, of course, you may have encountered cracking good cheese (Wallace and Gromit) and it's still rude to call someone "crackers".