peckerwood

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɛkəwʊd/    美 /ˈpɛkɚwʊd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A woodpecker. Appalachia,Southern-US,slang
    — 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.
  2. A peckerwood sawmill. Appalachia,Southern-US
    — 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.
  3. A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted. US,ethnic,offensive,slang,slur
    — 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.
  4. A white (male) inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang. slang

词形变化

peckerwoods plural peckawood alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
featherwood wood woodpile
相关词
peckerhead

词源

Inversion of woodpecker. Application to white people is due to the perception that the woodpecker is a symbol of whites, whereas the crow or blackbird is a symbol of blacks.
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