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[James Landau]

On  Mon, 9 Aug 2021 17:50:14 Zone - 0400  Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote::
<qquote>Amongst the colored, "peckerwood" is used pejoratively as a term of obloquy
for a white person or, literally, as the word for _woodpecker._ <end quote>

I do not recall ever having heard the term "peckerwood" from anyone of any race.  I am curious as to whether "pecker" = "penis" is the reason "peckerwood" is a term of obloquy.
James Landau
jjjrlandau at netscape.com

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