Meaning of creeker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A poor rural person.
   Appalachia, derogatory
2. A Viking.
   archaic

Examples

“I want⟳, at the outset to differentiate between those Appalachians who grow⟳ up in the towns and those from rural areas—the creeks and the hollers… This is a story from rural Appalachia, recently brought to consciousness, and reported by a creeker.”

“But at my alma mater in West Virginia, we had a unique "Us & Them" sorting classification: you were either a “hiller” or a “creeker.””

“Children of the old Vikings, or "Creekers", they took, in their great need⟳, to the seaward and the estuaries, as other conquered races take⟳ to the mountains, and died, like⟳ their forefathers, within scent of the salt sea from whence they came.”

“Wick, a creek or bay - Ipswich, Greenwich, Berwick. (Viking = a creeker.)”

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