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Peckerwood

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Noun

1. pecker, peckerwood, woodpecker

bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Peckerwood

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noun
1. 
a woodpecker
2. Black slang, offensive
a White person, esp one from the southern states of the United States

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Peckerwood

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noun Dialectal
poor white
a term of contempt

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Peckerwood

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n.
Chiefly Southern US
1. A woodpecker.
2. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a poor white person.

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