Kaintuck
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Kaintuck
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the US state of Kentucky. His single shot had clipped a boulder right by Coe's head, just the way a Kaintuck rifleman barks a squirrel.
noun Kaintucks
- A native or resident of Kentucky, especially one who has a rustic character. "Sech deescriptions . . . brings back my yearlin' days in good old Tennessee. We-all is a heaplike you Kaintucks down our way."
- A worker, especially one having a crude or rowdy manner, on a boat that transported commercial goods on the Mississippi River. Most New Orleans citizens . . . were used to the Kentucky riverboatmen, the Kaintucks others called them; they called themselves alligator-horses, and they were largely a rough and tumble breed.
proper noun
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The US state of Kentucky.
Si Higgins he's ben over to Kaintuck n' married a high-toned gal thar, outen the fust families.
Similar: Kentuckian
Talk about this word "Kaintuck." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/kaintuck. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. Kaintuck. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/kaintuck "Kaintuck." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/kaintuck.
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@misc{kaintuck_2026,
title = {Kaintuck},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/kaintuck},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
