Kaintuck
Kaintuck adjective: of or pertaining to the US state of Kentucky.
Adjective
Kaintuck (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the US state of Kentucky.
- His single shot had clipped a boulder right by Coe's head, just the way a Kaintuck rifleman barks a squirrel.c. 1958, Theodore Sturgeon, "The Man Who Figured Everything" in The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. X (2005 North Atlantic Books edition) (Google books preview)
- I felt at home in the city. Me, a Kaintuck country cracker.2009, Robert Hicks, A Separate Country, →ISBN
Noun
Kaintuck (plural Kaintucks)
- A native or resident of Kentucky, especially one who has a rustic character.
- "Sech deescriptions . . . brings back my yearlin' days in good old Tennessee. We-all is a heaplike you Kaintucks down our way."1902, Alfred Henry Lewis, Wolfville Days, ch. 9 Colonel Sterett's Reminiscences (Google books preview)
- There was a time when January would have been surprised that a Kaintuck could accomplish such mathematics.1998, Barbara Hambly, Fever Season, →ISBN
- A worker, especially one having a crude or rowdy manner, on a boat that transported commercial goods on the Mississippi River.
- Most New Orleans citizens . . . were used to the Kentucky riverboatmen, the Kaintucks others called them; they called themselves alligator-horses, and they were largely a rough and tumble breed.1974, Sylvia Wrobel and George Grider, Isaac Shelby: Kentucky's First Governor and Hero of Three Wars, Cumberland Press, p. 130
- By 1800 as many as ten thousand "Kaintucks" — the local term for boatmen from anywhere north of Natchez — annually journeyed on the trace, the most direct overland route home.1996, Arthur P. Miller Jr., Trails Across America, →ISBN, page 76
Proper noun
Kaintuck
- The US state of Kentucky.
- Si Higgins he's ben over to Kaintuck n' married a high-toned gal thar, outen the fust families.1873, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, chapter 1, in The Gilded Age
- "There ain't no sech hunter as Jim ever came out of Virginny, no, nor out of Caroliny, neither. It was him that fust telled me of Kaintuck."1921, John Buchan, chapter 12, in The Path of the King
- Synonyms:
- Kentuckian
Synonyms of Kaintuck
Forms of Kaintuck
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Questions about Kaintuck
- What does Kaintuck mean?
- Kaintuck means of or pertaining to the US state of Kentucky.
- What part of speech is Kaintuck?
- Kaintuck can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
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