Meaning of peckerwood | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A woodpecker.
   Appalachia, Southern-US, slang
2. A peckerwood sawmill.
   Appalachia, Southern-US
3. A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.
   US, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur
4. A white (male) inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.
   slang

Examples

“On the morning of the next, one of Mr. White's daughters came into the house to inform⟳ me that there was a "peckerwood" in a tree in the yard. I immediately took my gun and went out to investigate⟳ thinking that perhaps it was a Pileolated Woodpecker, a bird I wanted to obtain⟳.”

“When I was a boy, I rooted over an old dead sourwood to get⟳ some peckerwood eggs.”

“There was nothing but a peckerwood on an oak tree.”

“Throughout this territory are mills of every variety and size, from the small "peckerwood" tractor mill capable of cutting only a few thousand feet of lumber per day to the world's largest pine lumber mill with a capacity of more than one million feet per day.”

“The Langdale Company's new centralized sawmill and debarker in 1958 constituted a tremendous advance over the old peckerwood technology.”

“All the time I was stretched out on the infirmary cot I kept looking at the blank walls and seeing the mean⟳, murdering faces of those Southern peckerwoods when they went after Big Six and the others with their knives.”

“Just as prejudiced as a Mississippi peckerwood when it comes to colored people.”

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