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单词 tarheel
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tarheeln.

Brit. /ˈtɑːhiːl/, U.S. /ˈtɑrˌhil/
Forms: Also Tar Heel, Tar-heel, tar-heel.
Etymology: < tar n.1 + heel n.1
U.S. colloquial.
A nickname for a native or inhabitant of North Carolina, in allusion to tar as a principal product of that State. Also attributive.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > specific state > states
Marylander1640
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Jerseyman1679
Pennsylvanian1685
Carolinian1705
Georgian1732
Marylandian1750
Jersey blue1758
Californian1762
Louisianian1775
Mississippian1775
Acadian1776
Vermonteer1778
Kentuckian1779
Vermontese1783
Indianian1784
Cohee1786
Kentuck1789
Virginian1797
Michiganian1813
Michigan1814
Tennessean1815
Ohioan1818
Illinoian1819
Ohian1819
Missourian1820
buckeye1823
Vermonter1825
Hoosier1826
red horse1833
sucker1833
wolverine1833
puke1834
corn-cracker1835
Texian1835
Alaskan1836
Texan1837
Michigander1838
Oregonian1838
Rackensack1839
Arkansian1844
badger1844
Bay Stater1845
Lone Star Stater1845
Oregonese1845
tar-boiler1845
weasel1845
web foot1845
Alabaman1846
Iowanc1848
Arkansan1851
Minnesotian1851
Washingtonian1852
Minnesotan1854
Nebraskan1854
Kansian1855
Utahan1855
Floridan1856
fly-up-the-creek1857
Dakotian1861
Coloradan1862
Coloradian1862
Texican1863
Coloradoan1864
tarheel1864
Cajun1868
Kansan1868
Montanian1869
Floridian1870
mudcat1872
New Jerseyan1872
Arkansawyer1874
longhorn1876
Mainer1879
New Jerseyite1885
prune picker1892
Hawaiian1893
Oklahoman1894
Tex1909
blue hen's chicken1921
Tejano1925
Geechee1926
Arkie1927
sooner1930
wyomingite1930
New Mexican1940
Okie1948
1864 R. E. Park Diary 9 Dec. in Southern Hist. Soc. Papers (1876) II. 232 A poor, starving Tar Heel at Elmira.
1869 Overland Monthly Aug. 128/2 A brigade of North Carolinians..failed to hold a certain hill, and were laughed at by the Mississippians for having forgotten to tar their heels that morning. Hence originated their cant name, ‘Tar-heels’.
1888 American Humorist 2 June in J. S. Farmer Dict. Americanisms A little volume of North Carolina sketches, written by a talented young friend of mine, in the genuine tarheel dialect.
1889 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 2 95 The mountain ‘tarheel’ gradually drifted into a condition of dreary indifference to all things sublunary but hog and hominy.
1942 S. Kennedy Palmetto Country 260 North Carolina became known as the Tar-heel State.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Aug. 491/4 The ugly faces and, under prompting or provocation, the uglier actions of a handful of red-necks, crackers, tar-heels and other poor white trash here and there in the South.

Derivatives

ˈtar-heeled adj.
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1878 Scribner's Monthly Apr. 833/1 A little fellow from North Carolina..announced to the convention he was from ‘the tar-heeled state’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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