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Definition of "peckerwood" []

  • Chiefly Southern U.S. See woodpecker. See Regional Note at everwhere. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "peckerwood" in a sentence
  • "I see that the blogs resident peckerwood is up this morning. strasmangelo jones Says:"
  • "I certainly don't think this peckerwood is going to do it, much less with a smile on his face."
  • "The farmers well know its depredations and detest it accordingly, but unfortunately they are not ornithologists, and a peckerwood is a peckerwood to them; and so while the poor downy, the red-head, and the hairy woodpeckers are seen busily at work cutting the life threads of the injurious borer larvæ, the farmer, thinking of his dying trees, slays them all without mercy or distinction."