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piney wood U.S.
Also piny wood.
[piney var. piny a.]
a. A pine-wood; a region of pine-woods; spec. (pl.) regions of poor land in the Southern United States of which pine-trees are the characteristic growth. Also attrib.
1809M. L. Weems Life Gen. F. Marion xiv. 122 Had this savage spirit appeared among a few poor British cadets, or piney wood tories, it would not have been so lamentable. a1816B. Hawkins Sk. Creek Country (1848) 29 Broken piny woods and reedy branches on its right side. 1860Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 3) 321 Piney woods, the name given at the South to a large tract covered with pines, especially in the low country. 1863Longfellow Birds Killingw. xiii, The green steeples of the piny wood. 1887Century Mag. Aug. 544/1 Azalia, the little piney-woods village which Dr. Buxton had recommended as a sanitarium. 1946Sun (Baltimore) 26 July 16/3 The ponies..roam wild in the piney woods. 1963Social Problems X. 365/1 Lest such piney-woods practices be thought beneath the sophistication of the urban Negro. 1973Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 14 Aug. 2/3 Otter said that the twenty-seven victims found buried at the beach, in an east Texas piney wood and in a Houston boat shed, might be all the police will recover. 1976J. Crosby Snake (1977) xiii. 70 She found herself deep in piny woods and she could see nothing.
b. Special Combs., as piney-woods cracker, a poor Southern white; piney-wood(s) tacky, (a) a scrub pony; (b) = prec.
1872Kansas Mag. Mar. 238/1 Who that has seen the ‘clay-eater’, the ‘sandhiller’, or the ‘piney woods cracker’ of the South, does not know that it is impossible to exaggerate the sinfulness which looks out through the loop-holes of his red apologies for eyes? 1935Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men (1970) i. v. 113 'Bout this time John seen a white couple come in but they looked so trashy he figgered they was piney woods crackers.
1846Spirit of Times 11 July 234/3 Mac mounted a piney-woods-tacky..and hied him off to Charleston. 1888Century Mag. XXXVI. 799/2 If Mr. Catlett will come to Georgia and go among the ‘po' whites’ and ‘piney-wood tackeys’, he will hear the terms ‘we-uns’ and ‘you-uns’ in everyday use. 1944B. A. Botkin Treas. Amer. Folklore ii. 322 Such derogatory nicknames as..sand-hillers, pineywoods tackies, hill-billies. |