Creeker
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A poor rural person. Appalachia, derogatory
"I want, at the outset to differentiate between those Appalachians who grow up in the towns and those from rural areas—the creeks and the hollers… This is a story from rural Appalachia, recently brought to consciousness, and reported by a creeker."
- 2 Alternative form of krieker (“pectoral sandpiper”). alt-of, alternative
- 3 A Viking. archaic
"Children of the old Vikings, or "Creekers", they took, in their great need, to the seaward and the estuaries, as other conquered races take to the mountains, and died, like their forefathers, within scent of the salt sea from whence they came."
Example
More examples"I want, at the outset to differentiate between those Appalachians who grow up in the towns and those from rural areas—the creeks and the hollers… This is a story from rural Appalachia, recently brought to consciousness, and reported by a creeker."
Etymology
From creek + -er, denoting someone who lives in such a rural place that he has no hometown or settlement but a nearby creek.
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