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The term cracker was in use during the Elizabethan era to describe braggarts and blowhards. The original root of this is the Middle English word crack, meaning "entertaining conversation" (which survives as a verb, as in "to crack a joke"); the noun in the Gaelicized spelling craic also retains currency in Ireland and to some extent in Scotland and Northern England, in a sense of 'fun' or ...
This possibility is given in the 1911 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, [13] but the Oxford English Dictionary says a derivation of the 18th-century simplex cracker from the 19th-century compound corn-cracker is doubtful. [14] [15] A "cracker cowboy" with his Florida Cracker Horse and dog by Frederic Remington, 1895
Florida cracker, a sometimes disparaging term for colonial-era British and American pioneer settlers, and their modern-day descendants, in what is now the US state of Florida Florida cracker architecture , a style of home design, originating among 19th-century Floridians, and typified by a wood-framed house with a metal roof, raised floor ...
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Getty Images Located in Broward County on South Florida's east coast, Ft. Lauderdale, like many cities, has a language its own. Here's a brief guide to some of the top Fort Lauderdale slang terms ...
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The term originally characterized farmers that had a red neck, caused by sunburn from long hours working in the fields.A citation from 1893 provides a definition as "poorer inhabitants of the rural districts ... men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin stained red and burnt by the sun, and especially is this true of the back of their necks". [14]
This partial list of city nicknames in Florida compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities in Florida are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.