peckerwood.
A woodpecker.
Meaning & usage
A woodpecker.
A peckerwood sawmill.
A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.
A white (male) inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.
Where this word comes from
Inversion of woodpecker. Application to white people is due to the perception that the woodpecker is a symbol of whites, whereas the crow or blackbird is a symbol of blacks.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.