"woolhat" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: woolhats [plural]
Etymology: wool + hat Etymology templates: {{compound|en|wool|hat}} wool + hat Head templates: {{en-noun}} woolhat (plural woolhats)
  1. (US) A yokel or redneck. Tags: US
    Sense id: en-woolhat-en-noun-LrY12LpY Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1939, Shields McIlwaine, The southern poor-white from Lubberland to Tobacco Road",
          "text": "From his \"brass throat\" poured such harangues of class hatred that his woolhat followers howled down opposing speakers and hurled clods at them.",
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          "ref": "1964, K. B. Gilden, Hurry sundown: Volume 1",
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          "ref": "2002, Will D. Campbell, The Stem of Jesse: The Costs of Community at a 1960's Southern School",
          "text": "While it is easy for the sophisticates of today to assume the objection to racial integration came only from uneducated woolhats...",
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