corn-crackern.
/ˈkɔːnˌkrakə/ 1. U.S. A contemptuous name for a ‘poor white’ in the Southern States (? from his subsisting on corn or maize); a ‘cracker’. Also, a native of Kentucky.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > specific state > states
Marylander1640
Rhode Islander1665
Jerseyman1679
Pennsylvanian1685
Carolinian1705
Georgian1732
Marylandian1750
Jersey blue1758
Californian1762
Louisianian1775
Mississippian1775
Acadian1776
Vermonteer1778
Kentuckian1779
Vermontese1783
Indianian1784
Cohee1786
Kentuck1789
Virginian1797
Michiganian1813
Michigan1814
Tennessean1815
Ohioan1818
Illinoian1819
Ohian1819
Missourian1820
buckeye1823
Vermonter1825
Hoosier1826
red horse1833
sucker1833
wolverine1833
puke1834
corn-cracker1835
Texian1835
Alaskan1836
Texan1837
Michigander1838
Oregonian1838
Rackensack1839
Arkansian1844
badger1844
Bay Stater1845
Lone Star Stater1845
Oregonese1845
tar-boiler1845
weasel1845
web foot1845
Alabaman1846
Iowanc1848
Arkansan1851
Minnesotian1851
Washingtonian1852
Minnesotan1854
Nebraskan1854
Kansian1855
Utahan1855
Floridan1856
fly-up-the-creek1857
Dakotian1861
Coloradan1862
Coloradian1862
Texican1863
Coloradoan1864
tarheel1864
Cajun1868
Kansan1868
Montanian1869
Floridian1870
mudcat1872
New Jerseyan1872
Arkansawyer1874
longhorn1876
Mainer1879
New Jerseyite1885
prune picker1892
Hawaiian1893
Oklahoman1894
Tex1909
blue hen's chicken1921
Tejano1925
Geechee1926
Arkie1927
sooner1930
wyomingite1930
New Mexican1940
Okie1948
1835 Western Rev. June 342 There is neither wit nor meaning in the terms Hoosier, Sucker, Corncracker, and Buckeye, which have become so current.
1837–40 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 318 There's the hoosier of Indiana, the suckers of Illinois..and the corn~crackers of Virginia.
1845 in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) II. Corn-crackers, Potsoppers, Hard Heads, Hawk Eyes, Rackensacks, etc.
1848–60 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Corn-cracker, the nickname for a native of Kentucky.
1878 N. H. Bishop Voy. Paper Canoe 228 That class of..people called in the south—because they subsist largely upon corn—Corn Crackers, or Crackers. These Crackers are the ‘poor white folks’ of the planter.
1940 H. H. Hatcher Buckeye Country 298 I never in my life heard a Buckeye get into his voice that quiver of ecstasy that is second nature to a Corn~cracker when he mentions his bluegrass and his mountains and his folks.
2. An apparatus for cracking corn.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > cracker or roller
barley-cracker1808
corn-cracker1844
break-roll1910
1844 D. Lee & J. H. Frost Ten Years in Oregon xii. 134 At the mission we had a small cast-iron corncracker, in which we ground wheat after a fashion.
1900 N. Smithwick Evol. State 76 There was a sawmill with a corn cracker attached.
3. A species of ray-fish, Rhinoptera quadriloba, found on the south-eastern shores of the United States.
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1884 G. B. Goode Nat. Hist. Aquatic Animals 666 ‘Whipparee’ or ‘Corn-cracker’ of the South (Rhinoptera quadriloba).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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