corn-cracker
[ kawrn-krak-er ]
nounSlang: Disparaging and Offensive.
a contemptuous term used to refer to a member of a class of poor white people in the southern U.S.
Origin of corn-cracker
1usage note For corn-cracker
This term is used with disparaging intent and is perceived as insulting, being similar in connotation to redneck and hillbilly. Corn-cracker originally referred to a native of Kentucky or Georgia, but has come to apply broadly to any poor white person in the South. See also cracker.
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How to use corn-cracker in a sentence
The Colonel and I instinctively halted our horses, as the 'corn-cracker' stopped his.
I'll be gee-whizzly-gol-dusted if he ain't a malleable-iron-double-back-action self-adjusting corn-cracker.'
Black Rock | Ralph ConnorIn the words of Mr. Snell, when he came out from behind the watering-trough: "It was a corn-cracker!"
The Skipper and the Skipped | Holman Day"An' I'm d——d ef I made my wife th' 'oman she ar'," said the corn-cracker.
Among the Pines | James R. GilmoreAccompanied by the corn-cracker, I entered the turpentine-shed.
Among the Pines | James R. Gilmore
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