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Bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects
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peckerwood
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n. (context Southern US slang English) A woodpecker.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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1859, U.S. Southern black dialectal inversion of woodpecker ; in folklore, taken as the type of white folks (1929) and symbolically contrasted with blackbird .
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n. bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects [syn: woodpecker , pecker ]
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Peckerwood or Wood is a racial slur used to refer to White Americans. Peckerwood may also refer to: Peckerwood Cemetery, the prisoners' cemetery at the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth Peckerwood Hill, a nickname for Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in ...