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In other words (to keep on explaining this simple but hard-to-articulate point), in order for an expression to be dysphemistic it must be the intention of the user to employ it to an insulting, derogatory, or otherwise offensive purpose.
Earlier in this century, pansy became a derogatory epithet to describe an effete male, thereby cheapening forever lines like Shelley's noble image in Adonais (verse XXXIII):
breadfruit-swopper (derogatory and offensive) a person so poor that he or she has nothing to offer in exchange for any item but a home-grown breadfruit (which nearly everybody already has).
coconut or coconut head `noun, derogatory slang a black person who adopts white cultural characteristics .. The metaphor is based on the coconut's brown exterior and white interior.
By contrast buckra , also a derogatory term for a `white person,' is first recorded in 1787 and is probably from an Efik word meaning `he who governs' and `white man.