Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woodpecker.
- noun Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a poor white person.
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- noun southern US, slang A
woodpecker . - noun southern US A
peckerwood sawmill . - noun US, offensive, slang A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is
ignorant ,rustic , orbigoted . - noun prison slang A
white (male )inmate , especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-basedprison gang .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I see that the blogs resident peckerwood is up this morning. strasmangelo jones Says:
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I certainly don't think this peckerwood is going to do it, much less with a smile on his face.
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I certainly don't think this peckerwood is going to do it, much less with a smile on his face.
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The farmers well know its depredations and detest it accordingly, but unfortunately they are not ornithologists, and a peckerwood is a peckerwood to them; and so while the poor downy, the red-head, and the hairy woodpeckers are seen busily at work cutting the life threads of the injurious borer larvæ, the farmer, thinking of his dying trees, slays them all without mercy or distinction.
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919
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I too have butted heads with Mike Diehl, and I've come to the conclusion that hes just an undereducated, know-it-all, in-your-face, opinionated peckerwood out to make himself the center of the stage, even if your logic and evidence is overwhelmingly superior and more accurate than his.
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"I too have butted heads with Mike Diehl, and I've come to the conclusion that hes just an undereducated, know-it-all, in-your-face, opinionated peckerwood"
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Newt “The Grinch That Stole Democracy” Gingrich = = = Georgia good ole boy, peckerwood, racist, full of blind ignorance … Period.
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The lead peckerwood, the old fella with two teeth in his head, puts a chunk of raw meat on a hook fit for sharks.
An Arm and a Leg Thomas Pluck 2011
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This honky peckerwood racist is one of the biggest losers TP has ever seen.
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"I too have butted heads with Mike Diehl, and I've come to the conclusion that hes just an undereducated, know-it-all, in-your-face, opinionated peckerwood"
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