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Peckerwood.
I heard this used to describe someone I know to be of excellent character and high morals. It appeared to have been used perjoratively.
I finally found it defined in OED as a person of low or insignificent standing -- BUT -- the person using the word descriptively was nasty-faced.
Is there another definition?
In a rush. Excuse spelling OK?
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It originated as a term by southern blacks uaed in reference to poor southern whites. It has expanded to mean any white.
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W3 gives 'cracker' as the pejorative sense.
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W3 gives 'cracker' as the pejorative sense.
-joe (for an unabridged, they do get terse) friday I don't understand 'cracker' - what does that mean as a pejorative? Over here it means a firecracker.
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3. Offensive a. Used as a disparaging term for a poor white person of the rural, especially southeast United States. b. Used as a disparaging term for a white person. [AHD4]
-joe (poor white trash) friday
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Before the Braves moved there Atlanta had a minor league team called the Crackers. Back in the day it was common for a Negor League team in a city to take the name of the local white team, adding the word Black. Hence, one of my top two favorite baseball team names, the Atlanta Black Crackers.
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I was not aware of that definition.
My best guess is that most people using the term 'peckerwood' are not aware of its etymology. In every instance I recall hearing the term - and it numbers at least in the dozens and probably in the hundreds - it had no discernible racial over- (or under-) tones. It was simply an unnecessary expansion of calling someone a 'pecker' or a 'dick.'
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an unnecessary expansion of calling someone a 'pecker' or a 'dick.'
As my Alabama grandparents used the word quite frequently about and to me when I was a child (much like rascal or cute lil dickens, etc), I'm hoping they did not think I was a dick.
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OK... "dick" as a perjorative?
(Grew up in the 1940a-50s - sadldy lacking in jargonesque-scatology )
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OK... "dick" as a perjorative?
Slang word for a penis, or for someone who's a real jerk, someone who "screws another person over."
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