U.S. A contemptuous name given in southern States of North America to the ‘poor whites’; whence, familiarly, to the native whites of Georgia and…

An impoverished white person of low social status, esp. when regarded as uneducated or uncultured. Also with plural agreement: such people…

One who eats dirt: see dirt-eating, n.; spec. one of a class of ‘poor whites’ in some parts of the southern United States; = clay-eater n. at clay, n.…

one of a class of ‘poor whites’ living in the pine-woods that cover the sandy hills of Georgia and South Carolina.

a poor white person in the southern United States.

(a) a pony of inferior breed or small size; (b) = piney-woods cracker n..

A poor white of the Southern States from Virginia to Georgia.

= peckerwood, n. 2.

slang (esp. in African-American usage). depreciative. A white person, esp. a white person regarded as poor, rustic, or unsophisticated; = peck, n.4

a poor, lower-class white person typified as living in a mobile home; such persons collectively; (also, in extended use) any person or persons…

U.S. slang (depreciative). Short for peckerwood, n. 2.