A fork of Rural Dictionary
In prison, a white guy who will put up a fight.
On the inside, you're either a white boy, or a peckerwood.
A white person or craka
I bought my car from that peckerwood down the street.
A word that describes ignorant loud mouth, unclassy, rural class whites. They also have the tendency being racist toward most races and are uneducated and misinformed.
Damn dog, that dude is acting like peckerwood, being a loud mouth and shit. He is speaking ignorant about African Americans too. What a racist!!
Usually used as a way to describe white guys who aren't afraid to fight in prison.
"Those Aryan Brotherhood boys are some real peckerwoods, not like the punk that just moved in my cell."
A person of predominantly European descent that isn't ashamed of their pride in regards to their ethnicity/culture. Often times used by African-Americans as a derogatory term to describe an 'openly racist' white person.
"I know your type, punk-ass peckerwood with an attitude." - Dialogue in the movie AMERICAN HISTORY X
White people who do not play.
If you mess with that peckerwood, he will stomp a mudhole in your ass.
A good, but much-maligned, white person. Peckerwoods do not hijack airplanes. They don't expect society to take care of them. They never demand socialist medicine. No peckerwood ever prances in a parade wearing a jock strap. Peckerwoods mind their own business and are not a burden on society. Be nice to peckerwoods. Take a peckerwood to lunch this week!
Hey, any of you peckerwoods want to go to lunch this week?