The difference between Peckerwood and Redneck

When used as nouns, peckerwood means a woodpecker, whereas redneck means a poor, rural, especially white, person from the southern united states.

check bellow for the other definitions of Peckerwood and Redneck

  1. Peckerwood as a noun (Southern US, slang):

    A woodpecker.

  2. Peckerwood as a noun (Southern US):

    A peckerwood sawmill.

  3. Peckerwood as a noun (US, offensive, slang):

    A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.

  4. 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.

  1. Redneck as a noun (slang, pejorative):

    A poor, rural, especially white, person from the Southern United States; especially, one who is regarded as unsophisticated, rude, racist, arrogant, lowbrow, etc.

  2. Redneck as a noun (historical, slang, US):

    Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.

  3. Redneck as a noun (historical, slang, US):

    A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.

  4. Redneck as a noun (UK, archaic, 19th and 20th centuries):

    A Roman Catholic.

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