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  • 11peckerwood — noun /ˈpɛkəwʊd/ A white person, especially a Southerner, or when regarded as ignorant or rustic. All the time I was stretched out on the infirmary cot I kept looking at the blank walls and seeing the mean, murdering faces of those Southern… …

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  • 12peckerwood — n. woodpecker, type of bird with a hard bill for boring into trees; (Offensive Slang used in the USA) rural white person from the South who has a lower than average income …

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  • 13peckerwood — noun US informal, often derogatory a white person, especially a poor one. Origin 1920s: from a reversal of the elements of woodpecker, orig. a dialect word for the bird …

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  • 14peckerwood — peck·er·wood …

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  • 15peckerwood — A southern term for poor anglo saxon protestants …

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  • 16peckerwood — /ˈpɛkəwʊd/ (say pekuhwood) noun US (derogatory) a white, rural southerner, especially one viewed as boorish and racist. {reversal of woodpecker, especially the red bellied woodpecker which has a red patch on its neck; thus redneck} …

  • 17peckerwood — noun bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel like bill for boring into wood for insects • Syn: ↑woodpecker, ↑pecker • Hypernyms: ↑piciform bird • Hyponyms: ↑green woodpecker, ↑ …

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  • 18Jardín de Peckerwood — La especie de la familia Poaceae, Muhlenbergia dumosa. El Jardín Peckerwood (en inglés: Peckerwood Garden), es un arboreto y jardín botánico de 19 acres (unas 9 hectáreas) de extensión, especializado en plantas tipo de las montañas de México …

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  • 19Christian Patterson — Photograph from Christian Patterson s Sound Affects series Photograph from Christian Patterson s Out There series Christian Patterson (born 1972) is an American …

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  • 20Redneck — refers to a stereotype of usually rural, Caucasian (i.e. white) people of lower socio economic status in the United States and Canada. Originally limited to the Appalachians, and later the South, the Ozarks, the Great Plains and the Rocky… …

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