Meaning of Kaintuck | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A native or resident of Kentucky, especially one who has a rustic character.
   US, dialectal
2. The US state of Kentucky.
   US, dialectal
3. A worker, especially one having a crude or rowdy manner, on a boat that transported commercial goods on the Mississippi River.
   US, dialectal, obsolete

Examples

“"Sech deescriptions . . . brings back my yearlin' days in good old Tennessee. We-all is a heaplike you Kaintucks down our way."”

“There was a time when January would have been surprised that a Kaintuck could accomplish such mathematics.”

“Most New Orleans citizens . . . were used to the Kentucky riverboatmen, the Kaintucks others called them; they called themselves alligator-horses, and they were largely a rough and tumble breed.”

“By 1800 as many as ten thousand "Kaintucks" — the local term for boatmen from anywhere north of Natchez — annually journeyed on the trace, the most direct overland route home.”

“To the people along the lower Mississippi River, the flatboat men eventually came to be known as Kaintucks, whether or not they hailed from Kentucky.”

“Si Higgins he's ben over to Kaintuck n' married a high-toned gal thar, outen the fust families.”

“"There ain't no sech hunter as Jim ever came out of Virginny, no, nor out of Caroliny, neither. It was him that fust telled me of Kaintuck."”

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