Corn-cracker
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Corn-cracker is a noun meaning (US, dated, mildly derogatory) A lower-class white person in the Southern United States.
Meaning
(US, dated, mildly derogatory) A lower-class white person in the Southern United States.
More Meanings
- (US, dated) An agricultural machine for cracking corn kernels.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Word Forms
- corn-crackers
- corncracker
Synonyms for corn-cracker
Depending on context, synonyms include cracker.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include corncracker, cracker, crackerass, cracka, cracklet, cornball.
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