English Dictionary

peckerwood

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɛkɚwʊd/

名詞

アパラチア 南部アメリカ英語 俗語 アメリカ英語 攻撃的

(Southern US, Appalachia, slang) A woodpecker. / (Southern US, Appalachia) A peckerwood sawmill.

日本語の意味

(南部米国・アパラチアの俗語) キツツキ、すなわち木をつつく鳥を指す / (南部米国・アパラチアの俗語) 『peckerwood製材所』、特定の名称として用いられる製材所

A peckerwood kept drumming on the old oak outside my window until dawn.

キツツキが夜明けまで窓の外の古いオークの木をつつき続けていた。

意味（1）

(Southern US, Appalachia, slang) A woodpecker.

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.

意味（2）

(Southern US, Appalachia) A peckerwood sawmill.

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.

意味（3）

(US, offensive, slang) A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.

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.

意味（4）

(prison slang) A white (male) inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.

peckerwoods （ plural ）