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Definition of Tuckahoes
1. tuckahoe [n] - See also: tuckahoe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuckahoes
Literary usage of Tuckahoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"James K. Paulding, ' Letters from the South/ i. 112(NY, 1817). 1816 The daughters
of the tuckahoes are young ladies ; those of the ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1890)
"... supposed to be derived from their frequent use in colonial days of the
expression "Quoth he," or " Quo' he." tuckahoes, pronounced " Tur- ..."
3. Letters from the South by James Kirke Paulding (1835)
"... west of the Blue Ridge, they might have stigmatized the white settlers as
tuckahoes—mushrooms, in allusion to their being upstarts—new comers. ..."
4. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1839)
"... and the Powhatans—the two former being allied against the latter, as in the
present day. The tuckahoes and ..."
5. A Winter in the West by Charles Fenno Hoffman (1835)
"... as you are aware, religiously kept up in the State through which I am travelling;
the tuckahoes ..."
6. Americans of 1776 by James Schouler (1906)
"The Virginia "tuckahoes" of the tidewater region used in the winter to flock to
Williamsburg — "that toy capital," ..."
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