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corn-cracker

[ kawrn-krak-er ]

noun

Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.
  1. a contemptuous term used to refer to a member of a class of poor white people in the southern U.S.


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Sensitive Note

This term is used with disparaging intent and is perceived as insulting, being similar in connotation to redneck and hillbilly. Corn-cracker originally referred to a native of Kentucky or Georgia, but has come to apply broadly to any poor white person in the South. cracker.
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of corn-cracker1

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35; corn 1 + cracker
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Example Sentences

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Glad you 'uns found old corn-cracker up the gulch.

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"Don't beg any thing for me, Mr. K——," growled the Colonel through his barred teeth, "I'll fight the d——d corn-cracker, and his whole race, at once."

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No," he replied, "he's a North Carolina 'corn-cracker,' one of the ugliest specimens of humanity extant.

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We then left the cabin, and when out of hearing of the blacks, I said to the corn-cracker: "That may be Scripture doctrine, but I have not been taught so!"

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"D——d ef I doant b'lieve 'twud make her love th' little nig like I do;" replied the corn-cracker, taking him up on his knee as tenderly as he would have taken up his own child.

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