peckerwood
/ˈpɛkəwʊd
/noun US informal, often derogatory
A white person, especially a poor one: another peckerwood with a bad attitude [as modifier]: peckerwood territory
Origin
1920s: from a reversal of the elements of woodpecker, originally a dialect word for the bird, used commonly in Mississippi and Tennessee.
- parsimonious
- parsimoniously
- parsimoniousness
- parsimony
- pars intermedia
- Parsippany–Troy Hills
- Parsism
- parsley
- parsley-bed
- parsley breakstone
- parsley butter
- parsley caterpillar
- parsleyed
- parsley fern
- parsley frog
- parsley haw
- parsley-leaved hawthorn
- parsley-leaved thorn
- parsley piert
- parsley root
- parsley sauce
- parsley vine
- parsley water dropwort
- parsleyworm
- parslied