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shitepoke U.S.|ˈʃaɪtpəʊk|
Also shikepoke.
[f. shite, shit v. + poke n.]
1. The small green heron of North America, Butorides virescens; also, the black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax, or the bittern, Botaurus lentiginosus.
1775First Bk. Amer. Chron. ii. 19 They drummed with their drums,..running too and fro like shite-pokes on the muddy shore. c1850‘Dow, Jr.’ in Jerdan Yankee Hum. (1853) 48 Seagulls, shitepokes, cranes. 1913[see hop-toad]. 1942W. Faulkner in Sat. Even. Post 28 Mar. 11/3, I..went to the barn and got the slingshot and the shikepoke egg. 1966Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xlii. 17 The green heron... Another widely-used name is shitepoke (or shikepoke). 1972G. Beine Land of Coyote 88 A shitepoke waded about searching for frogs.
2. (See quot. 1926.)
1926in H. Wentworth Amer. Dial. Dict. (1944) 550/2 Shitepoke,..applied opprobriously to a person. 1936D. Lutes Country Kitchen 19 I'll return it—when they've returned all the molasses and sugar and eggs and everything else they've borrowed in the last year—the old shitepoke. |