Butternut
See also: butternut
English
editEtymology
editAfter the color of the Confederate uniform.
Noun
editButternut (plural Butternuts)
- (US, 19th century) Southern settlers of the Ohio river basin, who used dye from the butternut tree to colour their home-made clothing
- 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 17, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
- Yankees took to calling the Borderlanders “butternuts”—a reference to the color of their crude homespun clothes.
- (US, obsolete) A Confederate Southerner, or somebody who supported southern rights and slavery [19th c.]
- 1958, Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville.:
- The Illinois troops delivered a volley that sent the butternuts scampering back across the field.