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What is a peckerwood gang?
In prison/jail slang, a peckerwood is a white prisoner willing to fight or kill to keep from being robbed or raped by other inmates. That's a generic answer. Openly they are white men and white females that have been incarcerated and proven... Read More »
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What movie used the word peckerwood?
Wasn't "Peckerwood" mentioned in the movies, "Auntie Mame" with either Rosalind Russell in 1958, or Lucille Ball in 1974? Read More »
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Peckerwood
[pek-er-wood](n.) Any of numerous climbing birds of the family Picidae, having a hard, chisellike bill that it hammers repeatedly into wood in search of insects, stiff tail feathers to assist in climbing, and usually more or less boldly patterned plumage
(a.) Small or insignificant
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Pecker-wood is a derogatory slang word for someone who is Caucasian, usually from a poor background.
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Peckerwood: n. bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood.
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Peckerwood is a pejorative slang term coined in the 19th century by southern Black Americans to describe poor whites.
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Peckerwood (n) started out as a derogatory word used by the African Americans in the South to refer to white men.
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"Peckerwood" is an Afro American derogatory term for a poor white. Or redneck,honkie or cracker.
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peckerwood; woodpecker; pecker
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