secesh, n. and a. U.S. Hist. colloq.
(sɪˈsɛʃ)
[Shortened from secession.]
A. n. a. A secessionist. Also secessionists collectively.
| 1862 O. W. Holmes Old Vol. of Life (1891) 36 ‘There are two wounded Secesh’, said my companion. 1879 Tourgee Fool's Errand vi. 25, I was one of the original ‘Secesh’,—one of the immortal thirteen that voted for it in this county. |
b. Secession.
| 1863 Trollope in Good Words Dec. 858/2, I won't talk secesh to you out here in the cold. 1868 Green Lett. ii. (1901) 203 A Limehouse grocer proclaims his secesh from Newton. |
B. adj. = secessionist a.
| 1861 Ohio Statesman 6 Nov. in A. E. Lee's Hist. Columbus II. 102 The following distinguished secesh prisoners have been sent. 1862 ‘Artemus Ward’ His Bk. (1865) 145 He axed what was my principles? ‘Secesh!’ I ansered. 1871 Sir S. Northcote in Life (1890) II. 38 The whole town [Richmond, Va.] is still ‘Secesh’ to the heart's core. |