sharecroppern.

Brit.

/ˈʃɛːˌkrɒpə/, U.S.

/ˈʃɛrˌkrɑpər/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: share n.², cropper n.²

Etymology: < share n.² + cropper n.², apparently after sharecrop adj. or sharecrop n. (although these are first attested slightly later). Compare later sharecrop v.

Originally U.S.

A farm labourer who receives crops, board, etc., as wages in exchange for work performed. Also more generally: a tenant farmer who gives a part of the income from each crop as rent. Cf. share tenant n.Originally and chiefly with reference to farming practices in the American South in the century following the American Civil War (1861–5). American sharecroppers typically lived in poverty, and sharecropping arrangements were one of the ways in which African-American labour continued to be exploited following the end of slavery. While the words sharecropper and sharecropping are chiefly used in this historical context, they may sometimes be used to refer to similar later farming arrangements both in the United States and elsewhere.

ΚΠ

1871 Southern Banner (Athens, Georgia) 28 Apr. Share-croppers notoriously want to make little save cotton.

1912 Amer. Econ. Rev. 2 49 There is a distinction between the ‘share cropper’, who is but one stage removed from the hired hand, and the ‘renter’, who is very much the same as a tenant farmer as he is known in other parts of the country.

1967 S. Terkel Division Street xviii. 289 Though she was a sharecropper, they always had ‘plenty to eat’.

2013 Y. Mosley in A. Petty High Rise Stories 82 We left Mississippi because my mother and stepfather didn't want me and my siblings to grow up to be sharecroppers like them.

Compounds

As a modifier, as in sharecropper family, sharecropper shack.

ΚΠ

1903 Southern Cultivator 15 June 12/3 I wish to endorse your reply to E. F. S. in the May 1st issue on the ‘share cropper’ question.

1947 Social Forces Dec. 202/1 One hundred Negro sharecropper families on the King and Anderson plantation.

1973 W. McCarthy Detail i. 62 Paul..came from a large, poor, sharecropper family, in the heart of the delta land of Mississippi.

1989 D. Maharidge & M. Williamson And their Children after Them iv. i. 131 In 1960, when these projects were much younger.., they looked grand to white cotton refugees who had never lived in anything more substantial than sharecropper shacks.

2017 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 12 July 1 d [She] grew up in the small town of Commerce raised by her sharecropper grandparents.

2019 P. Caputo Hunter's Moon 56 Most northwoods deer camps make sharecropper shacks look luxurious.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

单词	sharecropper
释义	sharecroppern. Brit. /ˈʃɛːˌkrɒpə/, U.S. /ˈʃɛrˌkrɑpər/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: share n.², cropper n.² Etymology: < share n.² + cropper n.², apparently after sharecrop adj. or sharecrop n. (although these are first attested slightly later). Compare later sharecrop v. Originally U.S. A farm labourer who receives crops, board, etc., as wages in exchange for work performed. Also more generally: a tenant farmer who gives a part of the income from each crop as rent. Cf. share tenant n.Originally and chiefly with reference to farming practices in the American South in the century following the American Civil War (1861–5). American sharecroppers typically lived in poverty, and sharecropping arrangements were one of the ways in which African-American labour continued to be exploited following the end of slavery. While the words sharecropper and sharecropping are chiefly used in this historical context, they may sometimes be used to refer to similar later farming arrangements both in the United States and elsewhere. ΚΠ 1871 Southern Banner (Athens, Georgia) 28 Apr. Share-croppers notoriously want to make little save cotton. 1912 Amer. Econ. Rev. 2 49 There is a distinction between the ‘share cropper’, who is but one stage removed from the hired hand, and the ‘renter’, who is very much the same as a tenant farmer as he is known in other parts of the country. 1967 S. Terkel Division Street xviii. 289 Though she was a sharecropper, they always had ‘plenty to eat’. 2013 Y. Mosley in A. Petty High Rise Stories 82 We left Mississippi because my mother and stepfather didn't want me and my siblings to grow up to be sharecroppers like them. Compounds As a modifier, as in sharecropper family, sharecropper shack. ΚΠ 1903 Southern Cultivator 15 June 12/3 I wish to endorse your reply to E. F. S. in the May 1st issue on the ‘share cropper’ question. 1947 Social Forces Dec. 202/1 One hundred Negro sharecropper families on the King and Anderson plantation. 1973 W. McCarthy Detail i. 62 Paul..came from a large, poor, sharecropper family, in the heart of the delta land of Mississippi. 1989 D. Maharidge & M. Williamson And their Children after Them iv. i. 131 In 1960, when these projects were much younger.., they looked grand to white cotton refugees who had never lived in anything more substantial than sharecropper shacks. 2017 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 12 July 1 d [She] grew up in the small town of Commerce raised by her sharecropper grandparents. 2019 P. Caputo Hunter's Moon 56 Most northwoods deer camps make sharecropper shacks look luxurious. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1871
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