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Definition of Peckerwood
1. Noun. Bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects.
Generic synonyms: Piciform Bird
Group relationships: Family Picidae, Picidae
Specialized synonyms: Green Woodpecker, Picus Viridis, Downy Woodpecker, Flicker, Campephilus Principalis, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Ivorybill, Melanerpes Erythrocephalus, Redhead, Redheaded Woodpecker, Sapsucker, Wryneck, Piculet
Definition of Peckerwood
1. Noun. (Southern US slang) A woodpecker. ¹
2. Noun. (Southern US) A peckerwood sawmill. ¹
3. Noun. (US offensive slang) A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant or rustic. ¹
4. Noun. (context: prison slang) A white (male) inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Peckerwood
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peckerwood
Literary usage of Peckerwood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Second Report on the Water Powers of Alabama by Benjamin Mortimer Hall, Maxcy Reddick Hall (1916)
"... Mouth of peckerwood Creek, at foot of peckerwood Shoal 399.64 Mouth of Sulphur
Branch from Talladega Springs _ 402.80 Mouth of Cedar Creek, ..."
2. A Preliminary Report on a Part of the Water Powers of Alabama by Benjamin Mortimer Hall (1903)
"... a half mile above peckerwood Creek, at the foot of peckerwood Shoals, and is
eight miles east of Shelby, Ala., and two miles west of Talladega Springs, ..."
3. Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern by Horace Kephart (1922)
"The woodpecker is turned around into a peckerwood, except that the giant
woodpecker (here still a common bird) is known as a woodcock or ..."
4. Bill Arp: Front the Uncivil War to Date. 1861-1903 by Bill Arp (1903)
"My old friend peckerwood says he's lived here thirty-five years and never seed
the like before. It dident rain nor pour, but just come down in horizontal ..."
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