kaintuck
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A worker, especially one having a crude or rowdy manner, on a boat that transported commercial goods on the Mississippi River.
American usage; Obsolete
Example Sentences
- "His single shot had clipped a boulder right by Coe's head, just the way a Kaintuck rifleman barks a squirrel."
- "I felt at home in the city. Me, a Kaintuck country cracker."
- ""Sech deescriptions . . . brings back my yearlin' days in good old Tennessee. We-all is a heaplike you Kaintucks down our way.""
- "There was a time when January would have been surprised that a Kaintuck could accomplish such mathematics."
- "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."
- "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."