Kaintuck

English Adjective - en US dialect Of or pertaining to the US state of Kentucky. 1958, Theodore Sturgeon, "The Man Who Figured Everything" in The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. X (2005 North Atlantic Books edition), 9781556435195 (Google books preview): His single shot had clipped a boulder right by Coe's head, just the way a Kaintuck rifleman barks a squirrel. en 2009 Robert Hicks A Separate Country https://books.google.ca/books?id=J0cZbqzmfa8C&pg=PT40&dq=%22a+Kaintuck%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nOEpVb22Ho-nyASe04HgDw&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22a%20Kaintuck%22&f=false 9780446558365 I felt at home in the city. Me, a Kaintuck country cracker. Noun en 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." en 1998 w:Barbara Hambly Fever Season https://books.google.ca/books?id=9Ugxm7iyHkkC&pg=PT321&dq=%22a+Kaintuck%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nOEpVb22Ho-nyASe04HgDw&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=%22a%20Kaintuck%22&f=false 9780307785282 There was a time when January would have been surprised that a Kaintuck could accomplish such mathematics. en 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. en 1996 Arthur P. Miller Jr. Trails Across America https://books.google.ca/books?id=r86BAAAAMAAJ&q=%22kaintucks%22+boatmen&dq=%22kaintucks%22+boatmen&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rxUrVfesHsb-yQT294H4BQ&ved=0CB8Q6AEwATgy 76 9781555912352 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. en 2008 James A. Crutchfield It Happened on the Mississippi River https://books.google.ca/books?id=O9C1NkkPWJUC&pg=PA44&dq=%22kaintucks%22+boatmen&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iBIrVdKCO4OSyQSb_IDgCQ&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22kaintucks%22%20boatmen&f=false 44 9780762752362 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. Proper noun en US dialect The US state of Kentucky. 1 Si Higgins he's ben over to Kaintuck n' married a high-toned gal thar, outen the fust families. 12 "There ain't no sech hunter as Jim ever came out of Virginny, no, nor out of Caroliny, neither. It was him that fust telled me of Kaintuck." Synonyms of or pertaining to Kentucky en Kentuckian native or resident of Kentucky en Kentuckian en Demonyms Kentucky, USA