Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A venomous snake (Agkistrodon contortrix) of the eastern and central United States and northern Mexico, having a tan body with reddish-brown crossbands.
- noun A Northerner who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common venomous serpent of the United States, Trigonocephalus or Ancistrodon contortrix.
- noun Hence During the civil war in the United States, a northern sympathizer with the rebellion: so called by the Unionists.
- noun A term of ridicule or contempt applied to the early Dutch colonists of New York.
- noun A private token, equal to one cent, struck in the United States during the Civil War.
- noun In ornithology, the yellow-headed blackbird, Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus. of the western United States: so called from the reddish-yellow color of its head.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A poisonous American serpent (
Ancistrodon conotortrix ), closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called alsocopper-belly , andred viper . - noun U.S. A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of two species of
snakes , with acopper -colored head. - noun pejorative Someone with
ginger hair.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States
- noun venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia
Etymologies
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Examples
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After years of handling snakes I still get the willies form snakes. rattlesnakes usually give you a warning but the silent copperhead is just out to get ya. so I guess copperheads are my 2nd biggest fear of the outdoors.
What's more fearsome in the wilds, a man eating shark, or a menacing rattle snake? 2009
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After years of handling snakes I still get the willies form snakes. rattlesnakes usually give you a warning but the silent copperhead is just out to get ya. so I guess copperheads are my 2nd biggest fear of the outdoors.
What's more fearsome in the wilds, a man eating shark, or a menacing rattle snake? 2009
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The copperhead is plentiful here if you get to rocky areas, especially camping areas of the cons.dept. in Ozarks.
Puff This! 2008
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The copperhead is a poisonous serpent, that gives no warning of its approach, and hence is a type of a concealed or secret foe.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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The copperhead is a poisonous snake common in the southern United States.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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But while they remain, as they do, in the category of those that are blessed, I cannot be frightened at the names of 'copperhead' and
Letters and Journals 02] Morse, Samuel F B 1914
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Still, I did not like the idea of being a "copperhead;" -- for that was the unhandsome designation which
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But while they remain, as they do, in the category of those that are blessed, I cannot be frightened at the names of 'copperhead' and
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II 1831
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"copperhead," and the moccasin; and it is from the bites of one of these varieties that the great majority of reported deaths are caused.
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"copperhead" was, so I will go directly at my story without introductory remark, as is my way.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878
Drogulus commented on the word copperhead
I feel like this would be the perfect word to describe a meanspirited brunette
September 12, 2012