Butternut

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Etymology

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After the color of the Confederate uniform.

Noun

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Butternut (plural Butternuts)

  1. (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.
  2. (US, obsolete) A Confederate Southerner, or somebody who supported southern rights and slavery [19th c.]

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