单词 | piney-woods cracker |
释义 | > as lemmaspiney-woods cracker piney-woods cracker n. a poor white person in the southern United States. 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 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > person > specifically white cracker1766 stinkard1777 sand-hiller1848 piney-woods cracker1872 piney-wood tacky1888 tacky1888 1872 Kansas Mag. Mar. 238/1 Who that has seen the ‘clay-eater’, the ‘sandhiller’, or the ‘piney woods cracker’ of the South, does not know that it is impossible to exaggerate the sinfulness which looks out through the loop-holes of his red apologies for eyes? 1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. v. 113 'Bout this time John seen a white couple come in but they looked so trashy he figgered they was piney woods crackers. 1990 P. Matthiessen Killing Mister Watson (1991) 14 Thin piney-woods crackers with them knife-mouthed women, hollow-eyed under bent hats. < as lemmas |
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