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Pike, n.10 N. Amer. dial.|paɪk|
[f. Pike County, Missouri, whence the first of these persons are said to have come to California.]
Term of contempt on the Pacific coast for a person of no means or of migratory habits; a poor white; a thief. Cf. Piker4. Also as adj.
1854G. H. Derby in Pioneer (San Francisco) June 379 A tall yellow-haired, sun-burned Pike, in the butternut-colored hat, coat and so forths ‘of the period’. 1860C. W. Wilson Mapping Frontier (1970) ii. 126 There are about 350 inhabitants, miners, gamblers, sharpers, Jews, Pikes, Yankees, loafers & hoc genus omne. 1863Harper's Mag. June 25/2 Society in San José is decidedly ‘Pike’ in its character. 1872C. Nordhoff California xi. 138 The true Pike, however, in the Californian sense of the word, is the wandering, gipsy-like southern poor white. 1928R. W. Ritchie Hell Roarin' Forty-Niners xv. 234 This Pike had an imagination and a devilishly sly humor which would qualify him to-day for one of our highly specialized lines of salesmanship. 1946St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 17 Nov. e 2/6 The term ‘Pike’ or ‘piker’, in the sense of a worthless, lazy, good-for-nothing person arose first in California in the days of the Forty-Niners. |