creeker
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: krēkə IPA(key): /kɹiːkə/
- (US) IPA(key): /kɹikɚ/, (Appalachia) /kɹɪkɚ/
- Rhymes: -iːkə, -iːkə(ɹ)
- Homophone: creaker
Etymology 1
creek + -er, denoting someone who lives in such a rural place that he has no hometown or settlement but a nearby creek.
Noun
creeker (plural creekers)
- (Appalachia, derogatory) A poor rural person.
- 2002 June 21, Scott DeRosier, Linda, Creeker: A Woman's Journey, Lexington, Kentucky, United States: The University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN:
- I want, at the outset to differentiate between those Appalachians who grow up in the towns and those from rural areas—the creeks and the hollers… This is a story from rural Appalachia, recently brought to consciousness, and reported by a creeker.
- 2017 August 23, Kay, Trey, “Us & Them: 'You're Either a Hiller or a Creeker'”, in Us & Them (in English), Charleston, West Virginia, United States: West Virginia Public Broadcasting, retrieved 2020-07-27:
- But at my alma mater in West Virginia, we had a unique "Us & Them" sorting classification: you were either a “hiller” or a “creeker.”
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Coordinate terms
- hiller, the next highest socioeconomic class
Noun
creeker (plural creekers)
- Alternative form of krieker (“pectoral sandpiper”)