Kaintuck
noun- "Sech deescriptions . . . brings back my yearlin' days in good old Tennessee. We-all is a heaplike you Kaintucks down our way."1902, Alfred Henry Lewis, Wolfville Days, ch. 9 Colonel Sterett's Reminiscences (Google books preview)
- There was a time when January would have been surprised that a Kaintuck could accomplish such mathematics.1998, Barbara Hambly, Fever Season, →ISBN:
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US, Dialectal, Obsolete A worker, especially one having a crude or rowdy manner, on a boat that transported commercial goods on the Mississippi River.
- 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.1974, Sylvia Wrobel and George Grider, Isaac Shelby: Kentucky's First Governor and Hero of Three Wars, Cumberland Press, p. 130
- 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.1996, Arthur P. Miller Jr., Trails Across America, →ISBN, page 76:
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- 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.2008, James A. Crutchfield, It Happened on the Mississippi River, →ISBN, page 44: