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peckerwood
noun- a white rural southerner, especially an uncouth and racist one US, 1904
Not praise. Also shortened variants “peck”, “pecker” and “wood”. - A “buddy” drinks bilge water, eats crap, and runs rabbits. That’s what a peckerwood means when he calls you “buddy”. — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 11, 1945
- I kept looking at the blank walls and seeing the mean, murdering faces of those Southern peckerwoods when they went after Big Six and the others with their knives. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 16, 1946
- [T]he thing I want to know is who’s the peckerwood runs the poker game in this establishment. — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 264, 1962
- And, man, you ain’t seen a peckerwood until you’ve seen Lyle Britten. — James Baldwin, Blues for Mister Charlie, p. 40, 1964
- And Grandma told me what peckerwoods were. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 48, 1965
- Did you know that peckerwood of Pepper’s is the bankroll behind the biggest policy wheel in town? — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 67, 1969
- You come back here and kill one racist, red-necked, honkey camel-breathed peckerwood who’s been misusing you and your people all your life and that’s murder. — H. Rap Brown, Die Nigger Die!, p. 38, 1969
- a non-Italian US
- Nick also warned against using outside hit men, especially “peckerwoods”–a term used by Kansas City mobsters for non-Italians. — U.S. News & World Report, p. 50, 29 September 1980
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