featherwood
featherwood noun: a white female inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.
Noun
featherwood (plural featherwoods)
- A white female inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.
- I have another roommate who is a white girl, she is a featherwood. So she got this thing in the mail from her pen pal that had peckerwood written in it. And this black girl wanted to look at her mail, which she had no business doing […]1998, Barbara A. Owen, "In the Mix": Struggle and Survival in a Women's Prison, page 155
- "I don't know, Teri asked me if I was a featherwood and I said no because I don't have wings […]" […] "Girl do you know what a featherwood is?" Tai asked. "I thought it was a bird." "God you're so innocent." Dolores stated.2007, Sandra Coleman, From Housewife and Mother to Convict, page 100
Forms of featherwood
| plural | featherwoods |
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Origin of featherwood
Blend of feather + peckerwood.
Questions about featherwood
- What does featherwood mean?
- Featherwood means a white female inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.
- What part of speech is featherwood?
- Featherwood is a noun.
- What is the plural of featherwood?
- The plural of featherwood is featherwoods.
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