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peckerwood

[ pek-er-wood ]

noun

  1. Midland and Southern U.S. woodpecker.
  2. Southern U.S. Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. poor white.


adjective

  1. Southern U.S. small or insignificant:

    He makes a living farming and running a peckerwood sawmill.

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of peckerwood1

1825–35, Americanism; pecker + wood 1; inversion of woodpecker
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Example Sentences

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And white supremacist groups like the Rise Above Movement are giving a new voice to the bigotry of the skinheads and peckerwood gangs that long haunted Huntington Beach, Anaheim and working-class parts of the county.

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Plenty times, plenty times I have carried the welts given me by a two-tone peckerwood because I was late in the field row the next morning.

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Just making sure no peckerwoods round here start any illegal violence.’

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“Perry, did this peckerwood just call me boy ?†“I think you’d better leave him alone,†I said.

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He said I was quite brave, and that was my cue to reveal our confrontation with the peckerwood dentist and Momma’s incredible powers.

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