peckerwoodn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈpɛkəwʊd/, U.S.

/ˈpɛkərˌwʊd/

Forms: 1800s– peckerwood, 1900s– peckahwood, 1900s– peckawood.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: woodpecker n.

Etymology: < woodpecker n., with reversal of the two elements. With sense A. 2 compare slightly earlier peck n.⁴Compare U.S. regional peckwood, peckerwooder (in isolated attestations).

U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland).

A. n.

1. A woodpecker.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Picus (woodpecker)

woodhackc1440

woodwall1490

woodpecker1530

woodhacker1548

woodpeck1552

woodspite1555

woodspeckc1560

modwall1572

eat-bill1598

speck1601

tree-jobber1601

hecco1604

eat-bee1608

knag1639

French pie1783

pie1783

nicker-pecker1787

rind-tabberer1848

peckerwood1859

nickle1885

nicker1886

1835 in Daily Home (Talladega, Ala.) (1910) 28 Feb. 2/2 The mouth of Peckerwood creek.]

1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 314 Peckerwood, Western for Woodpecker.

1893 H. A. Shands Some Peculiarities Speech Mississippi 49 Peckerwood, woodpecker. Bartlett says that this word is Western. It is also heard very frequently in Mississippi, as in Tennessee.

1909 F. B. Calhoun Miss Minerva 140 A big, red-headed peckerwood.

1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. vi. 137 Ah wasn't gointer kill no ole tough peckerwood for you to eat, baby.

1947 J. H. Brown Outdoors Unlimited 76 Watching the jays and peckerwoods and listening to the distant shrillings of a hawk.

1968 Harper's Mag. Sept. 61/1 I even liked what the kids at Tuskegee Institute called ‘those crazy li'l ol' peckerwoods’.

2. slang (esp. in African-American usage). depreciative. A white person, esp. a white person regarded as poor, rustic, or unsophisticated; = peck n.⁴

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun] > poor white person

cracker1766

poor white1781

dirt-eater1802

sand-hiller1848

piney-woods cracker1872

piney-wood tacky1888

tacky1888

peck1924

peckerwood1928

trailer trash1943

pecker1966

1859 Southern Literary Messenger May 398/2 You must be ixtreemly keerful uv yoself, my deare. I shall be back in a few days... To Mrs. Mozis Addums in rispect. Peckerwood Parrydice, near Kerdsvil, Buckingaim County, Va.]

1928 C. McKay Home to Harlem v. 46 What's the matter, buddy, the peckawoods them was doing you in?

1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 255 Even a Delta peckerwood would look after even a draggle-tail better than that.

1967 C. Major in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 299 How come so many Of us niggers Are dying over there In that white Man's war They say more of us Are dying Than them peckerwoods & it just Don't make sense.

1967 N.Y. Times 7 Sept. 42/4 When I tried to get into the black caucus, they said, ‘No peckerwoods allowed in here, Sonny.’

1974 E. Brawley Rap (1975) ii. xxiv. 374 And we done, peckerwood, we finished.

1995 High Country News 7 Aug. 13/3 Prisons..are often deep in peckerwood territory, where a black prison employee is going to feel about as welcome as a black escaped convict.

B. adj.

Small, poor, inferior; (also) of, relating to, or characteristic of the (poor white) population of the Southern states of America.

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society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place for working with wood > [adjective] > small or inferior

peckerwood1866

1866 C. H. Smith Bill Arp, so Called 95 If it didn't rain any more and the entire crop was prudently gathered, he might probably make a peck to the acre of peckerwood nubbins.

1946 Newsweek 15 Apr. 68/1 Conditions encourage not the efficient experienced producers but the peckerwood..operators.

1989 New Yorker 11 Dec. 136/3 The stern, melodramatic portrait of Earl's older brother Huey as a fantastic demagogue—a Peckerwood Caligula.

1992 USA Today (Nexis) 10 Apr. 7 d The redneck, coonass, peckerwood South that you thought had been eaten up by the developers of Sunbelt suburbs.

2003 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 5 Aug. 64 A glib Democrat with a peckerwood accent and no plans for raising taxes has a better chance than a north-eastern stiff.

Compounds

peckerwood mill n. a small, usually transient, logging and milling operation.

ΚΠ

1937 B. R. Morley Characteristics Labor Market Alabama 40 There are also a great number of small so-called ‘peckerwood’ mills which operate in small tracts.

1995 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 13 Jan. 4 b There were still a lot of small mountaintop mills we called peckerwood mills in the '50s.

peckerwood sawmill n. = peckerwood mill n.

ΚΠ

1941 H. C. Nixon Possum Trot 110 Little portable, or ‘peckerwood’ sawmills which go from timber patch to timber patch.

1963 Sat. Evening Post 16 Feb. 70/2 Forestry was a hit-and-run business, with the little peckerwood sawmills stripping the countryside.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	peckerwood
释义	peckerwoodn.adj. Brit. /ˈpɛkəwʊd/, U.S. /ˈpɛkərˌwʊd/ Forms: 1800s– peckerwood, 1900s– peckahwood, 1900s– peckawood. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: woodpecker n. Etymology: < woodpecker n., with reversal of the two elements. With sense A. 2 compare slightly earlier peck n.⁴Compare U.S. regional peckwood, peckerwooder (in isolated attestations). U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland). A. n. 1. A woodpecker. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Picus (woodpecker) woodhackc1440 woodwall1490 woodpecker1530 woodhacker1548 woodpeck1552 woodspite1555 woodspeckc1560 modwall1572 eat-bill1598 speck1601 tree-jobber1601 hecco1604 eat-bee1608 knag1639 French pie1783 pie1783 nicker-pecker1787 rind-tabberer1848 peckerwood1859 nickle1885 nicker1886 1835 in Daily Home (Talladega, Ala.) (1910) 28 Feb. 2/2 The mouth of Peckerwood creek.] 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 314 Peckerwood, Western for Woodpecker. 1893 H. A. Shands Some Peculiarities Speech Mississippi 49 Peckerwood, woodpecker. Bartlett says that this word is Western. It is also heard very frequently in Mississippi, as in Tennessee. 1909 F. B. Calhoun Miss Minerva 140 A big, red-headed peckerwood. 1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. vi. 137 Ah wasn't gointer kill no ole tough peckerwood for you to eat, baby. 1947 J. H. Brown Outdoors Unlimited 76 Watching the jays and peckerwoods and listening to the distant shrillings of a hawk. 1968 Harper's Mag. Sept. 61/1 I even liked what the kids at Tuskegee Institute called ‘those crazy li'l ol' peckerwoods’. 2. slang (esp. in African-American usage). depreciative. A white person, esp. a white person regarded as poor, rustic, or unsophisticated; = peck n.⁴ ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun] > poor white person cracker1766 poor white1781 dirt-eater1802 sand-hiller1848 piney-woods cracker1872 piney-wood tacky1888 tacky1888 peck1924 peckerwood1928 trailer trash1943 pecker1966 1859 Southern Literary Messenger May 398/2 You must be ixtreemly keerful uv yoself, my deare. I shall be back in a few days... To Mrs. Mozis Addums in rispect. Peckerwood Parrydice, near Kerdsvil, Buckingaim County, Va.] 1928 C. McKay Home to Harlem v. 46 What's the matter, buddy, the peckawoods them was doing you in? 1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 255 Even a Delta peckerwood would look after even a draggle-tail better than that. 1967 C. Major in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 299 How come so many Of us niggers Are dying over there In that white Man's war They say more of us Are dying Than them peckerwoods & it just Don't make sense. 1967 N.Y. Times 7 Sept. 42/4 When I tried to get into the black caucus, they said, ‘No peckerwoods allowed in here, Sonny.’ 1974 E. Brawley Rap (1975) ii. xxiv. 374 And we done, peckerwood, we finished. 1995 High Country News 7 Aug. 13/3 Prisons..are often deep in peckerwood territory, where a black prison employee is going to feel about as welcome as a black escaped convict. B. adj. Small, poor, inferior; (also) of, relating to, or characteristic of the (poor white) population of the Southern states of America. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place for working with wood > [adjective] > small or inferior peckerwood1866 1866 C. H. Smith Bill Arp, so Called 95 If it didn't rain any more and the entire crop was prudently gathered, he might probably make a peck to the acre of peckerwood nubbins. 1946 Newsweek 15 Apr. 68/1 Conditions encourage not the efficient experienced producers but the peckerwood..operators. 1989 New Yorker 11 Dec. 136/3 The stern, melodramatic portrait of Earl's older brother Huey as a fantastic demagogue—a Peckerwood Caligula. 1992 USA Today (Nexis) 10 Apr. 7 d The redneck, coonass, peckerwood South that you thought had been eaten up by the developers of Sunbelt suburbs. 2003 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 5 Aug. 64 A glib Democrat with a peckerwood accent and no plans for raising taxes has a better chance than a north-eastern stiff. Compounds peckerwood mill n. a small, usually transient, logging and milling operation. ΚΠ 1937 B. R. Morley Characteristics Labor Market Alabama 40 There are also a great number of small so-called ‘peckerwood’ mills which operate in small tracts. 1995 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 13 Jan. 4 b There were still a lot of small mountaintop mills we called peckerwood mills in the '50s. peckerwood sawmill n. = peckerwood mill n. ΚΠ 1941 H. C. Nixon Possum Trot 110 Little portable, or ‘peckerwood’ sawmills which go from timber patch to timber patch. 1963 Sat. Evening Post 16 Feb. 70/2 Forestry was a hit-and-run business, with the little peckerwood sawmills stripping the countryside. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1859
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