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woolhat en · NOUN

Etymology

From wool + hat.

Meanings

1. (US) A yokel or redneck.
   • While it is easy for the sophisticates of today to assume the objection to racial integration came only from uneducated woolhats... 2002, Will D. Campbell, The Stem of Jesse: The Costs of Community at a 1960's Southern School:
   • From his "brass throat" poured such harangues of class hatred that his woolhat followers howled down opposing speakers and hurled clods at them. 1939, Shields McIlwaine, The southern poor-white from Lubberland to Tobacco Road:
   • We're woolhats, red necks, white trash, crackers, the scum of the earth, the filth under their feet. 1964, K. B. Gilden, Hurry sundown: Volume 1:

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