Peckerwood vs. Redneck
Peckerwoodnoun
A woodpecker.
Peckerwoodnoun
(Southern US) A peckerwood sawmill.
Peckerwoodnoun
A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.
Peckerwoodnoun
A white (male) inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.
Peckerwoodnoun
bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
Peckerwoodnoun
a white person, especially a poor one
Peckerwood
Peckerwood is a term used in the Southern United States for a woodpecker which is also used as an offensive epithet toward white people, especially poor rural whites. Originally an ethnic slur, the term has been embraced by a subculture related to prison gangs and outlaw motorcycle clubs.
Rednecknoun
A poor, rural, usually white and male, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and northeast, especially one who is unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being rude, racist, and/or arrogant.
Rednecknoun
Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
Rednecknoun
A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
Rednecknoun
A Roman Catholic.
Rednecknoun
a poor white person in the southern United States
Rednecknoun
a working-class white person from the southern US, especially a politically reactionary one
Redneck
Redneck is a derogatory term chiefly, but not exclusively, applied to white Americans perceived to be crass and unsophisticated, closely associated with rural whites of the Southern United States. Its usage is similar in meaning to cracker (especially regarding Texas, Georgia, and Florida), hillbilly (especially regarding Appalachia and the Ozarks), and white trash (but without the last term's suggestions of immorality).
