PECKERWOOD meaning: Racially charged, derogatory term, white

We found 18 dictionaries that define the word peckerwood:

General (14 matching dictionaries)

peckerwood: Merriam-Webster.com
peckerwood: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
peckerwood: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
peckerwood: Collins English Dictionary
peckerwood: Vocabulary.com
peckerwood: Wiktionary
peckerwood: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
peckerwood: Infoplease Dictionary
peckerwood: Dictionary.com
Peckerwood: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
peckerwood: Rhymezone
peckerwood: Free Dictionary
peckerwood: Mnemonic Dictionary
peckerwood: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

peckerwood: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

Peckerwood (offensive): Racial Slur Database
peckerwood, peckerwood: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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Definitions from Wiktionary (peckerwood)

▸ noun:  (Southern US, Appalachia, slang) A woodpecker.
▸ noun:  (Southern US, Appalachia) A peckerwood sawmill.
▸ noun:  (US, offensive, slang, ethnic slur) A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.
▸ noun:  (prison slang) A white (male) inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.

Opposite:

urbanite, cosmopolitan, city dweller

Types:

redneck, hillbilly, white trash, trailer trash, hick, bogtrotter, yokel, clodho, more...

Phrases:

peckerwood sawmill, more...

Adjectives:

old, little, ignorant, miserable, damn

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