Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

featherwood

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: feath-er-wood
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A white female inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.

Slang

Example Sentences

"I have another roommate who is a white girl, she is a featherwood. So she got this thing in the mail from her pen pal that had peckerwood written in it. And this black girl wanted to look at her mail, which she had no business doing […]"
""I don't know, Teri asked me if I was a featherwood and I said no because I don't have wings […]" […] "Girl do you know what a featherwood is?" Tai asked. "I thought it was a bird." "God you're so innocent." Dolores stated."
"I've been visiting a couple of featherwoods, all bad tattoos and twisted intentions. Seeing Anita for the first time without a half-inch-thick plate of shatterproof Plexiglas between us (the county jail allows only noncontact visits), […]"

Etymology

Blend of feather + peckerwood.

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

featherwoods (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

peckerwood woodpile

Questions

What does featherwood mean?: A white female inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.
Where does featherwood come from?: Blend of feather + peckerwood.

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