A Kentuckian.
1837–40. Haliburton. (N.E.D.) See EEL.
1840. People in the Atlantic States know as little about the high and beating heart of the Mississippi Valley, as we Buckeyes, Corn-Crackers, and Hooshiers do about Nova Zembla.—Cincinn. Chronicle, Aug. 26.
1848. There is a swarm of “suckers,” “hoosiers,” “buckeyes,” “corn-crackers,” and “wolverines” eternally on the qui vive [in Wisconsin].—Durivage and Burnham, ‘Stray Subjects,’ p. 79.
