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单词 piney wood
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piney woodn.

Brit. /ˈpʌɪnɪ wʊd/, U.S. /ˈpaɪni ˌwʊd/
Forms: see piney adj. and wood n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: piney adj., wood n.1
Etymology: < piney adj. + wood n.1 Compare slightly earlier pinewood n. 2, pineland n.
Chiefly U.S.
A pinewood; an area covered with pine trees; spec. (in plural) tracts of infertile land in the southern United States on which pines are the characteristic growth.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies > assemblage of
pinewood1652
piney wood1666
pinery1783
pinetum1828
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [adjective] > of or relating to pine-tree and allies > of or relating to assemblage of pines
piney wood1666
pinewood1790
pinewoody1945
the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of
ripplelOE
wildwooda1122
rough1332
firth?a1400
tod stripec1446
osiard1509
bush1523
bush-ground1523
fritha1552
island1638
oak landc1658
pinelandc1658
piney wood1666
broom-land1707
pine barrenc1721
pine savannah1735
savannah1735
thick woods1754
scrub-land1779
olive wood1783
primeval forest1789
open wood1790
strong woods1792
scrub1805
oak flata1816
sertão1816
sprout-land1824
flatwoods1841
bush-land1842
tall timber1845
amber forest1846
caatinga1846
mahogany scrub1846
bush-flat1847
myall country1847
national forest1848
selva1849
monte1851
virgin forest1851
bush-country1855
savannah forest1874
bush-range1879
bushveld1879
protection forest1889
mulga1896
wood-bush1896
shinnery1901
fringing forest1903
monsoon forest1903
rainforest1903
savannah woodland1903
thorn forest1903
tropical rainforest1903
gallery forest1920
cloud forest1922
rain jungle1945
mato1968
1666 R. Fanshawe tr. Horace in A. Brome et al. tr. Horace Poems 133 Since the dire African Through the Italian Cities ran Like fire through Piny woods [L. per taedas].
1731 J. Trapp tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. III. 163 A Piny Wood for many Years there grew On the high Mountain's Top, my Fav'rite Grove.
1788 S. J. Pratt Humanity 71 Touch'd by cries that pierc'd the piny wood, The natives sought the margin of the flood.
a1816 B. Hawkins Sketch Creek Country 1798 & 1799 in Coll. Georgia Hist. Soc. (1848) III. 29 Broken piny woods and reedy branches on its right side.
1863 H. W. Longfellow Birds of Killingworth xiii The green steeples of the piny wood.
1946 Sun (Baltimore) 26 July 16/3 The ponies..roam wild in the piney woods.
1988 Smithsonian Stud. Amer. Art Fall 34/1 The greenish metalwork of Hoboken grows white against the piney woods in Seven A. M.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
piney woods country n.
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1860 N.Y. Times 31 July 8/5 They don't get aboard at Mobile, but somewhere up in the piney woods country.
1959 A. H. Carhart National Forests iii. 97 Foresters who came to the piney woods country from other regions had had the idea that all fire in timberlands was bad.
1982 A. Brinkley Voices of Protest p. ix The red-clay, piney-woods country of northern Louisiana.
piney woods prairie n.
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1944 T. Barbour Vanishing Eden 124 Most characteristic feature of Florida is the needle-grass pond of the open piney-woods prairie.
2003 Orlando (Florida) Sentinel (Nexis) 7 Feb. 45 Born in 1820, Summerlin cast a long shadow on the piney woods prairie.
piney woods village n.
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1887 Cent. Mag. Aug. 544/1 Azalia, the little piney-woods village which Dr. Buxton had recommended as a sanitarium.
1993 Business Hist. Rev. 22 Dec. 643 Their preference for residence in Charleston or in scattered piney woods villages, such as Pineville.
C2. Chiefly derogatory. Designating a backward or unsophisticated person or thing.
a.
piney-woods practice n.
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1963 Social Probl. 10 365/1 Lest such piney-woods practices be thought beneath the sophistication of the urban Negro.
piney-wood tory n. Obsolete
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1809 M. 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.
b.
piney-woods cracker n. a poor white person in the southern United States.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun] > poor white person
cracker1766
poor white1781
dirt-eater1802
sand-hiller1848
piney-woods cracker1872
piney-wood tacky1888
tacky1888
peck1924
peckerwood1928
trailer trash1943
pecker1966
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > person > specifically white
cracker1766
stinkard1777
sand-hiller1848
piney-woods cracker1872
piney-wood tacky1888
tacky1888
1872 Kansas 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?
1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men 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.
1990 P. Matthiessen Killing Mister Watson (1991) 14 Thin piney-woods crackers with them knife-mouthed women, hollow-eyed under bent hats.
piney-wood tacky n. (also piney-woods tacky) (a) a pony of inferior breed or small size; (b) = piney-woods cracker n..
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > defined by size > small > pony > with particular characteristics
heath-cropper1819
show pony1842
piney-wood tacky1846
shaganappi1879
raw1895
the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > white person > [noun] > poor white person
cracker1766
poor white1781
dirt-eater1802
sand-hiller1848
piney-woods cracker1872
piney-wood tacky1888
tacky1888
peck1924
peckerwood1928
trailer trash1943
pecker1966
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] > person > specifically white
cracker1766
stinkard1777
sand-hiller1848
piney-woods cracker1872
piney-wood tacky1888
tacky1888
1846 Spirit of Times 11 July 234/3 Mac mounted a piney-woods-tacky..and hied him off to Charleston.
1888 Cent. Mag. 36 799/2 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.
1944 B. A. Botkin Treasury Amer. Folklore ii. 322 Such derogatory nicknames as..sand-hillers, pineywoods tackies, hill-billies.
a1976 S. J. Cook From Tobacco Road to Route 66 in Jrnl. Southern Hist. (1976) 43 481 Lubbers, crackers, dirt eaters, woolhats, river rats, piney-woods tackies, [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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