English Dictionary

corn-cracker

名詞

アメリカ英語 古語 軽蔑的 軽度

(US, archaic, mildly derogatory) A lower-class white person in the southern US. / (US, archaic) An agricultural machine for removing the shells from corn.

日本語の意味

(US, archaic, mildly derogatory) 南部の下層階級に属する白人（侮蔑的な表現） / (US, archaic) トウモロコシの殻を除去するための農業機械

In the 1920s novel, the protagonist is labeled a corn-cracker by the townspeople, which highlights the era's class and regional tensions.

その1920年代の小説では、主人公は町の人々から南部の貧しい白人と呼ばれ、当時の階級や地域の緊張が浮き彫りになります。

意味（1）

(US, archaic, mildly derogatory) A lower-class white person in the southern US.

Our summons was answered by its owner, a well-to-do, substantial, middle-aged planter, wearing the ordinary homespun of the district, but evidently of a station in life much above the common corn-crackers I had seen at the country meeting-house.

意味（2）

(US, archaic) An agricultural machine for removing the shells from corn.

A subscriber at Burnsville inquires for a corn cracker which he can work by attaching it to Warren's horse power. There is a corn cracker made here, but it is not a very superior machine.

corn-crackers （ plural ）