Hillbilly vs Peckerwood - What's the difference?
hillbilly | peckerwood |
Someone who is from the hills; especially from a rural area, with a connotation of a lack of refinement or sophistication.
A white person from the rural southern part of the United States, especially the Southeastern states.
(Southern US, slang) A woodpecker.
* {{quote-journal
, date = 1900-01-15
, title = A Trip to Fauquier Co., Virginia; With Notes on the Specimens Obtained.
, first = T. P.
, last = Drowne
, journal = The Museum: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Research in Natural Science
, editor = Webb, Walter F.
, location = Albion
, volume = 6
, issue = 3
, page = 38
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=ZsXRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA224&dq=peckerwood
, passage = On the morning of the next, one of Mr. White's daughters came into the house to inform me that there was a "peckerwood " in a tree in the yard. I immediately took my gun and went out to investigate thinking that perhaps it was a Pileolated Woodpecker, a bird I wanted to obtain.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1953
, title = The Good Spirit of Laurel Ridge
, first = Jesse
, last = Stuart
, publisher = McGraw-Hill
, location = New York
, ol = 6136729M
, lccn = 53010630
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=ljpKAAAAMAAJ&dq=peckerwood
, passage = When I was a boy, I rooted over an old dead sourwood to get some peckerwood eggs.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1992
, year_published = 2000
, title = The Mountains Won't Remember Us: And Other Stories
, first = Robert
, last = Morgan
, publisher = Scribner
, location = New York
, ol = 6783044M
, isbn = 9780743204217
, page = 40
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=HGXHWH_BHSIC&pg=PA40&dq=peckerwood
, passage = There was nothing but a peckerwood on an oak tree.
}}
(Southern US) A peckerwood sawmill.
*{{quote-journal
, date = 1933-01-07
, title = Serving an essential Industry: Lumber
, journal = The Traffic World
, volume = 51
, issue = 1
, author = Traffic Service Corporation
, page = 8
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=dU9DAQAAIAAJ&dq=peckerwood
, passage = Throughout this territory are mills of every variety and size, from the small "peckerwood " tractor mill capable of cutting only a few thousand feet of lumber per day to the world's largest pine lumber mill with a capacity of more than one million feet per day.
}}
*{{quote-book
, year = 2002
, title = Judge Harley and His Boys: The Langdale Story
, first = John E.
, last = Lancaster
, publisher = Mercer University Press
, location = Macon
, isbn = 9780865548237
, ol = 8317650M
, edition = First
, page = 222
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=IO02VExuINMC&pg=PA222&dq=peckerwood
, passage = The Langdale Company's new centralized sawmill and debarker in 1958 constituted a tremendous advance over the old peckerwood technology.
}}
(US, offensive, slang) A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.
* {{quote-book
, year = 1946
, first = Mezz
, last = Mezzrow
, coauthors = Wolfe, Bernard
, title = Really the Blues
, publisher = Kensington
, location = New York
, year_published = 2001
, isbn = 9780806512051
, ol = 7941497M
, page = 16
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=V_qO1Foszj8C&pg=PA16&dq=peckerwoods
, passage = 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 peckerwoods when they went after Big Six and the others with their knives.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1967
, title = 'Sippi
, first = John Oliver
, last = Killens
, page = 50
, publisher = Trident Press
, location = New York
, lccn = 67016400
, ol = 5539087M
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=HKxiAAAAMAAJ&q=peckerwood
, passage = Just as prejudiced as a Mississippi peckerwood when it comes to colored people.
}}
A white (male) inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.