A Missourian. See 1858.
1838. The suckers of Illinoy, the pukes of Missuri,… and the corn-crackers of Virginia.—Haliburton, ‘The Clockmaker,’ ii. 289. (N.E.D.)
1838. They anticipated a brush with the long-haired “pukes.”—E. Flagg, ‘The Far West,’ ii. 85 (N.Y.).
1843. [He said to the Sheriff:] you damned infernal puke; we’ll learn you to come here and interrupt gentlemen.—Address by Joseph Smith at Nauvoo, Ill., June 30: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ ii. 168.
1843. [There was] a small chance of Pukes from beyond the father of floods.—B. R. Hall (‘Robert Carlton’), ‘The New Purchase,’ ii. 47.
1845. See Appendix XV.
1845. If I could have a—what do they call us Missourians?—no doubt I should [be] at once relieved.—St. Louis Reveille, Sept. 1.
1852. Sundry ‘Hoosiers,’ ‘Buckeyes,’ ‘Suckers,’ ‘Pukes,’ and ‘Wolvereens,’ representing this incongruous mass of live stock, all wide awake, and ready for business.—Knick. Mag., xxxix. 344 (April).
1856. You can search the house, but, as for this puke of a Missourian he shall not come in.—Sara Robinson, ‘Kansas,’ p. 205 (1857).
1857. See PLUG-UGLY.
1858. Early Californians christened as ‘Pukes’ the immigrants from Missouri, declaring that they had been vomited forth from that prolific State.—A. D. Richardson, ‘Beyond the Mississippi,’ p. 132 (1867).
