(US, dialect) Of or pertaining to the US state of Kentucky.
, Theodore Sturgeon, "The Man Who Figured Everything" in The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. X (2005 North Atlantic Books edition), ([https://books.google.ca/books?id=h_a77nYqVR0C&pg=PA186&dq=%22a+Kaintuck%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_e…
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(US, dialect) A native or resident of Kentucky, especially one who has a rustic character.
1902, Alfred Henry Lewis, Wolfville Days, ch. 9 Colonel Sterett's Reminiscences ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160305201058/https://books.google.ca/books?id=W3i-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT75&dq=%22Kaintucks%22+-flatboat+-barge+-barges+-flatboats+-bo…
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(US, dialect, obsolete) A worker, especially one having a crude or rowdy manner, on a boat that transported commercial goods on the Mississippi River.
: "Sech deescriptions . . . brings back my yearlin' days in good old Tennessee. We-all is a heaplike you Kaintucks down our way."
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