Regional endearments (was Cracker)

[Ted Samsel]

> 
> Ted Samsel wrote:
> > Whip cracker is right..
> > but not slaves.. more like oldtime ox & mule teamsters...
> 
> A minor point--from what I've heard living in Fla. for nearly 12 years now
> the word is thought to have come from the actual "Crack!" sound a whip
> makes.
> 
> > the po'white trash is "cracker", the gentility ain't.
> 
> But now many of the old-time pioneer families are rich, often because
> great great granddaddy's farm or ranch is now a subdivision or mall.  And
> many of them still like to call themselves Crackers.

Gad! The nouveau riche. Pity.

So what about regional endearments as:

cedar chopper/cedar hacker
charcoal burner
punkin roller... usw?

"Lawsy, this list is a-goin' to the babtists and the bitterweeds"
                       paraphrasing my quarter Cherokee maternal
                                                       grandmother..