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Kaintuck

形容詞

Kaintuck (not comparable)

1. (US, dialect) Of or pertaining to the US state of Kentucky.
   • c. 1958, Theodore Sturgeon, "The Man Who Figured Everything" in The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. X (2005 North Atlantic Books edition), →ISBN (Google books preview):
     His single shot had clipped a boulder right by Coe's head, just the way a Kaintuck rifleman barks a squirrel.
   • 2009, Robert Hicks, A Separate Country, →ISBN (Google books preview):
     I felt at home in the city. Me, a Kaintuck country cracker.

名詞

Kaintuck (複数形 Kaintucks)

1. (US, dialect) A native or resident of Kentucky, especially one who has a rustic character.
   • 1902, Alfred Henry Lewis, Wolfville Days, ch. 9 Colonel Sterett's Reminiscences (Google books preview):
     "Sech deescriptions . . . brings back my yearlin' days in good old Tennessee. We-all is a heaplike you Kaintucks down our way."
   • 1998, Barbara Hambly, Fever Season, →ISBN (Google books preview):
     There was a time when January would have been surprised that a Kaintuck could accomplish such mathematics.
2. (US, dialect, obsolete) A worker, especially one having a crude or rowdy manner, on a boat that transported commercial goods on the Mississippi River.
   • 1974, Sylvia Wrobel and George Grider, Isaac Shelby: Kentucky's First Governor and Hero of Three Wars, Cumberland Press, p. 130:
     Most New Orleans citizens . . . were used to the Kentucky riverboatmen, the Kaintucks others called them; they called themselves alligator-horses, and they were largely a rough and tumble breed.
   • 1996, Arthur P. Miller Jr., Trails Across America, →ISBN, p. 76 (Google snippet view):
     By 1800 as many as ten thousand "Kaintucks" — the local term for boatmen from anywhere north of Natchez — annually journeyed on the trace, the most direct overland route home.
   • 2008, James A. Crutchfield, It Happened on the Mississippi River, →ISBN, p. 44 (Google books preview):
     To the people along the lower Mississippi River, the flatboat men eventually came to be known as Kaintucks, whether or not they hailed from Kentucky.

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