Secesh

Quick meaning: Secesh is an adjective meaning (US, informal, historical) Secessionist, supportive of the Confederacy during the United States Civil War.

Meaning

(US, informal, historical) Secessionist, supportive of the Confederacy during the United States Civil War.

More Meanings

1. (US, informal, historical) A secessionist, a supporter of the Confederacy during the United States Civil War.

Example Sentences

[…] our minds to get 'em, and we charged, yelling like bloody hl, drove the seceshes back a deuced sight quicker than they come, and popped 'em down at every shot.

This is true, for Mrs. Sherman has an idea that St. Louis is unhealthy for our children, and because most of the Catholics here are tainted with the old secesh feeling.

'You don't see any grief?' Edward shouts, turning on me. 'I'd sure like to know what you're doing in an Army if you ain't keen on fighting! People are counting on us keeping those Seceshes from coming North, is what you mean.'

[…] I think they buried more secesh than our folks. Question. How did they bury them? Answer. They buried the secesh over back of the fort, all except those on Fort Hill; them they buried up on top of the hill where the gunboats shelled them.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include secessionist, antisecession, segregationalist, sectish, separatist, cis-supremacist.

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