corn-cracker
corn-cracker noun: a lower-class white person in the Southern United States.
Noun
corn-cracker (plural corn-crackers)
- A lower-class white person in the Southern United States.
- 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.1862, James R. Gilmore, chapter 12, in Among the Pines, or, South in Secession Time
- Synonyms:
- cracker
- An agricultural machine for cracking corn kernels.
- 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.1847 August, The Prairie Farmer, Volumes 6-8, "Editor's Table", p. 261 (Google books)
Synonyms of corn-cracker
Forms of corn-cracker
| plural | corn-crackers |
|---|---|
| alternative form | corn cracker |
| alternative form | corncracker |
Questions about corn-cracker
- What does corn-cracker mean?
- Corn-cracker means a lower-class white person in the Southern United States.
- What part of speech is corn-cracker?
- Corn-cracker is a noun.
- What is the plural of corn-cracker?
- The plural of corn-cracker is corn-crackers.
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