英:[pekəwʊd]
美:['pekəˌwʊd]
英:[pekəwʊd]
美:['pekəˌwʊd]
词根:pecker
n.pecker 啄木鸟;鹤嘴锄;穿孔器;精神;阴茎
1859年,美国南方黑人方言倒置 woodpecker; 在民间传说中,被视为白人的代表,尤其是贫穷的白人(1929年),并象征性地与 blackbird 形成对比。
probably inversion of woodpecker
The first known use of peckerwood was in 1904
1 What do we look like, a couple of peckerwood jackasses?
我们看起来象什么,象不象啄木鸟?
2 Plenty times, plenty times I have carried the welts given me by a two-tone peckerwood because I was late in the field row the next morning.
3 The woman’s grief is understandable, Hiram, but she’s got no cause to blame all of us for what a couple redneck peckerwoods did in the middle of the night.”
4 “Sure the boys got off, but you can’t tell me the next peckerwood who’s got lynching on his mind isn’t going to worry just a little that he might end up in a courtroom.”
5 “Perry, did this peckerwood just call me boy ?” “I think you’d better leave him alone,” I said.
6 Just making sure no peckerwoods round here start any illegal violence.’
7 He said I was quite brave, and that was my cue to reveal our confrontation with the peckerwood dentist and Momma’s incredible powers.
8 And white supremacist groups like the Rise Above Movement are giving a new voice to the bigotry of the skinheads and peckerwood gangs that long haunted Huntington Beach, Anaheim and working-class parts of the county.
9 "The call of flickers sounded through the canyons Of Old Buttermilk, and peckerwoods were beating Reveilles before the sun was up!"
10 What do we look like, a couple of peckerwood jackasses?
我们看起来象什么, 象不象啄木鸟?