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Carpetbagger vs Carpetbagged - What's the difference?

carpetbagger | carpetbagged |

As a noun carpetbagger

is an immigrant from the Northern to the Southern States after the American Civil War of 1861–5, especially one who went South to gain political influence; hence, someone intervening in the politics of an area with which they are thought to have no real connection.

As a verb carpetbagged is

past tense of carpetbag.

carpetbagger

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (politics, history, chiefly, US) An immigrant from the Northern to the Southern States after the American Civil War of 1861–5, especially one who went South to gain political influence; hence, someone intervening in the politics of an area with which they are thought to have no real connection.
  • Though he lived and worked in Los Angeles for sixteen years, the candidate for Attorney General is no carpetbagger ; he was born and raised in this state and graduated from the state university.
    He's just a carpetbagger who was surprised to find that Southerns are not like the cast of ''The Dukes of Hazzard'' or ''Deliverance''.
  • (pejorative, by extension) One who comes to a place or organisation with which they have no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 339:
  • By the tenth century, out of the diversity of these Christianized Anglo-Saxon kingdoms emerged one of the most coherent political units in Europe, a single monarchy of England, with a precociously centralized government which eventually fell like a ripe plum into the grateful hands of Norman carpetbaggers in 1066.

    carpetbagged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (carpetbag)

  • carpetbag

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • having the characteristics of carpetbaggers
  • carpetbag travels

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and used primarily in the United States in the 19th century.
  • Verb

    (carpetbagg)
  • To come to a place or organisation with which one has no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain.
  • Derived terms

    * carpetbagger