Kentuckadj.n.
/ˈkɛntʌk/ U.S.
= Kentuckian adj. and n.
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Kentucky1785
Kentuck1789
Kentuckian1804
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Cohee1786
Kentuck1789
Virginian1797
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Arkansawyer1874
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New Jerseyite1885
prune picker1892
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blue hen's chicken1921
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1789 Mass. Spy 11 June A Kentuck boat of 40 feet long.
1826 T. Flint Recoll. Last Ten Years 15 A ‘Kentuck’ is the best man at a pole.
1831 Constellation (N.Y.) 143/2 Placing a huge lump of his favorite ‘Kentuck’ [tobacco] in his mouth.
1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. 24 I gets a quid of the real Kentuck twist into my mouth.
1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. I. 25 When we Kentuck boys get at it, it won't all end like a log rollin'.
1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West I. ix. 105 Here are congregated the primitive navies of Indiana, Ohio, and the adjoining States, manned..by ‘real Kentucks’.
1841 Southern Lit. Messenger 7 53/2 A segment of an old Virginia hoe-cake... In Kentuck phrase ‘would not be bad toe take’.
1842 Amer. Phioneer I. 157 I then entered a Kentuck boat and descended the river.
1852 B. Casseday Hist. Louisville ii. 69 ‘And you waded in like a raal Kaintuck,’ rejoined Nine-Eyes.
1872 W. J. Flagg Good Investm. 544/1 You must expect me to defend myself Kaintuck fashion.
1941 L. D. Baldwin Keelboat Age 61 The Americans..considered a ‘Kentuck’ best at the setting poles.
1942 in H. Wentworth Amer. Dial. Dict. (1944) 338/2 The Kaintucks were spared a feud with the N.Y.C. police.
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adj.n.1789