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corn-craker Also -cracker. A local variant of corn-crake in W. of Scotland.1703 M. Martin West. Isles 71 (in Pennant) Corn-craker. 1802–33 G. Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1833) 103. 1885 in Swainson Provinc. Names Birds.
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▪ I. corn-cracker (ˈkɔːnˌkrækə(r)) 1. U.S. A contemptuous name for a ‘poor white’ in the Southern States (? from his subsisting on corn or maize); a ‘cracker’. Also, a native of Kentucky.1835 Western Rev. June 342 There is neither wit nor meaning in the terms Hoosier, Sucker, Corncracker, and Buckey...
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1962 New Year Honours
Alfred Richard Leslie Aylward, Farmer and Corn Merchant, Alton, Hampshire. Captain Charles Henry Randolph Craker, British Vice-Consul, Dieppe.
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