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Bushwhacker

noun
1.
A disparaging term for an unsophisticated person.  Synonym: hillbilly.
2.
A Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War.





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"Bushwhacker" Quotes from Famous Books



... sheriff's house and tippytoed past the outermost of the six two-room shacks at the rear of the dance hall. His objective was the Starlight Saloon, his purpose to discover the bushwhacker who had tried to ...
— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White
... country. He growled hoarsely: "It'll be more years than there are miles between here and Jensen's before you get a cent out of that case. You're a fool for making the trip; why don't you let 'em get that old bushwhacker at Salem, he's only three ...
— The Calling Of Dan Matthews • Harold Bell Wright
... our house. I done this twice a day and ever time I went back the dishes would be empty. I never did see nobody and didn't nobody tell me why I was to take the food up there but of course it was either for soliders [TR: sic] that was scouting 'round or it may been for some lowdown dirty bushwhacker, and again it might a been for some of old Master's folks scouting 'round to ...
— Slave Narratives, Oklahoma - A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From - Interviews with Former Slaves • Various


Words linked to "Bushwhacker" :   Confederate soldier, rustic, bushwhack


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