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peckerwood

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peck⋅er⋅wood

  [pek-er-wood]
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–noun
1. Midland and Southern U.S. woodpecker.
2. Southern U.S. Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. poor white.
–adjective
3. Southern U.S. small or insignificant: He makes a living farming and running a peckerwood sawmill.
Origin:
1825–35, Americanism; pecker + wood 1 ; inversion of woodpecker
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peck·er·wood   (pěk'ər-wŏŏd')   
n.   Chiefly Southern U.S.
See woodpecker. See Regional Note at everwhere.
wood·peck·er   (wŏŏd'pěk'ər)   
n.  Any of various usually brightly colored birds of the family Picidae, having strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for clinging to and climbing trees and a chisellike bill for drilling through bark and wood. Also called regionally peckerwood.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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peckerwood

and wood
  1. n.
    a poor white person. (Very old southern term for a woodpecker.) : What's that peckerwood want in this hood?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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