What is Peckerwood?
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A peckerwood is a rural white southerner, usually poor, undereducated or otherwise ignorant and bigoted, the term gained popularity in the deep south during the early twentieth century and was meant to be derogatory. It is a reversal of the name of the red bellied woodpecker which had a patch of red on the back of it’s head and neck, therefore a peckerwood is a redneck, terms that describe similar groups of people are trailer trash or white trash but neither of those have the same effect or ring to them as peckerwood does.
From: "Peckerwood Nation" dailykos storyonly/2006/6/28/181447/773
That man was a true peckerwood, born and raised.
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A derogatory slang for someone who is caucasion.
He got three more months added to his sentence for calling the judge a peckerwood
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This is a term used primarily in prisons regarding skineheads, {aryans}, Nazis and just plain out white boys.
It started out as a derogatory word used by the African Americans in the South to refer to white men, but the white men eventually picked it up and started using it for theirselves.
Women are called "Featherwoods" It is the same reference.
That Peckerwood looks fine, he sure is a mighty fine nazi with his aryan look, he is sure to please all the fine featherwoods.
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A white person or craka
I bought my car from that peckerwood down the street.
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Racist term for white man.
All these peckerwoods tryin' to hold a brotha down.
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A REAL white boy that slaps the shit out of fake ass niggers.
"Look at that PECKERWOOD stomping those niggers for talking shit".
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Usually used as a way to describe white guys who aren't afraid to fight in prison.
"Those Aryan Brotherhood boys are some real peckerwoods, not like the punk that just moved in my cell."
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