Kaintuck

Adjective

 * 1)  Of or pertaining to the US state of Kentucky.
 * 2) * c. 1958, Theodore Sturgeon, "The Man Who Figured Everything" in The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. X (2005 North Atlantic Books edition), ISBN 9781556435195 (Google books preview):
 * His single shot had clipped a boulder right by Coe's head, just the way a Kaintuck rifleman barks a squirrel.

Noun

 * 1)  A native or resident of Kentucky, especially one who has a rustic character.
 * 2) * 1902, Alfred Henry Lewis, Wolfville Days, ch. 9 Colonel Sterett's Reminiscences (Google books preview):
 * "Sech deescriptions . . . brings back my yearlin' days in good old Tennessee. We-all is a heaplike you Kaintucks down our way."
 * 1)  A worker, especially one having a crude or rowdy manner, on a boat that transported commercial goods on the Mississippi River.
 * 2) * 1974, Sylvia Wrobel and George Grider, Isaac Shelby: Kentucky's First Governor and Hero of Three Wars, Cumberland Press, p. 130:
 * Most New Orleans citizens . . . were used to the Kentucky riverboatmen, the Kaintucks others called them; they called themselves alligator-horses, and they were largely a rough and tumble breed.
 * Most New Orleans citizens . . . were used to the Kentucky riverboatmen, the Kaintucks others called them; they called themselves alligator-horses, and they were largely a rough and tumble breed.

Proper noun

 * 1)  The US state of Kentucky.