Date:  Fri, 13 May 1994 11:29:42 EDT

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: peckerwood



EDWARD CALLARY WROTE:



>Re; Peckerwood.....in at least Western Oklahoma and

>eastern new mexico, in at least the more rural areas. . . . Peckerwood was

>often used by the staff there, even to a student's face, to refer

>to a student who was a little dickens, a skeezix, a loveable

>rascal, someone who even was a pleasant diversion. . . . There I knew of no

>racial distributions. . . .



I remember using the term as a high school student in Texas in the late

sixties. We used the term with no racial implications. A person who did

something like pour soda water or coke on me while I was lying there with

my eyes shut would be accused of being a peckerwood. I never really knew

at all what the term meant exactly (like "fink" or "twerp"), but I used it

as necessary.









Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu