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Kaintucks

Kaintucks is the plural of Kaintuck.

Meaning of Kaintuck

Noun

Kaintuck (plural Kaintucks)

  1. (US, dialectal) 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)
  2. (US, dialectal, obsolete) 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

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Questions about Kaintucks

What is Kaintucks the plural of?
Kaintucks is the plural of Kaintuck.

Words near Kaintucks in the dictionary

  1. Kainth
  2. Kainths
  3. Kaintock
  4. Kaintocks
  5. Kaintuck
  6. Kaintucks
  7. Kainuu
  8. Kainz
  9. Kainzes
  10. kaipen
  11. Kaiping

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