The difference between Cracker and Peckerwood
When used as nouns, cracker means a dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers), whereas peckerwood means a woodpecker.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cracker and Peckerwood
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Cracker as a noun:
A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
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Cracker as a noun:
A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
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Cracker as a noun:
A firecracker.
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Cracker as a noun:
A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker). The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope and produces a cracking sound.
Examples:
"synonyms: popper"
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Cracker as a noun:
A Christmas cracker.
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Cracker as a noun:
Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
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Cracker as a noun (slang, chiefly, British):
A fine thing or person (crackerjack).
Examples:
"She's an absolute cracker! The show was a cracker!"
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Cracker as a noun:
An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
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Cracker as a noun (computing):
One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
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Cracker as a noun (obsolete):
A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow.
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Cracker as a noun (US, derogatory, racial slur):
An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; any white person.
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Cracker as a noun (US, Florida, slang, derogatory):
A police officer.
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Cracker as a noun:
A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.
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Cracker as a noun (obsolete):
A pair of fluted rolls for grinding caoutchouc.
Examples:
"rfquotek Knight"
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Peckerwood as a noun (Southern US, slang):
A woodpecker.
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Peckerwood as a noun (Southern US):
A peckerwood sawmill.
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Peckerwood as a noun (US, offensive, slang):
A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.
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Peckerwood as a noun (prison, _, slang):
A white (male) inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.