单词 | piney wood |
释义 | piney woodn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 1963 Social Probl. 10 365/1 Lest such piney-woods practices be thought beneath the sophistication of the urban Negro. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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.. ΘΚΠ 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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