An adjective derisively applied to the Democratic party, and sometimes coupled with “unwashed.”
1832. Mr. Van Buren was taken up by the “unterrified Democracy” to run as Vice-President on the ticket of “old Hickory.”—Note to ‘Major Downing’s Letters,’ p. 169 (1860).
1839. I take leave to say that I too am an unterrified Senator of the unterrified Commonwealth of Virginia.—Mr. Roane in the U.S. Senate, Feb. 15: Cong. Globe, p. 185, App.
1840. If any of the “unterrified democrats” can answer this question, it would confer a particular favor on a Real Hard Ciderite.—Letter to The Atlas, Boston, Nov. 12. The same paper two months before, applies the term “unterrified” to the Green Mountain Boys: Albert Matthews in Notes and Queries, 11 S. iii. 172.
1842. We are, indeed, in the open field, still unconquered and unterrified.—Mr. Rayner of North Carolina, House of Repr., March 28: Cong. Globe, p. 405/1, App.
1848. A score of loafers from the ‘unwashed democracy’ had got together for the purpose of seeing a live President.—Durivage and Burnham, ‘Stray Subjects,’ p. 177.
1853. At this point a great portion of the unwashed, as well as the “unterrified” left the hall.—Weekly Oregonian, Jan. 8.
1854. Brother Waterman must have help. Come, ye unwashed and unterrified, to the rescue.—Id., April 22.
1859. Governor FLOYD, of Virginia, was addressing a mass-meeting of the ‘Unterrified’ in Independence Square, Philadelphia.—Knick. Mag., liii. 222 (Feb.).
1861. Inclosed I send you a copy of a ticket, formed at a primary meeting of one of our ‘unterrified’ wards.—Id., lviii. 560 (Dec.). (Italics in the original.)
1863. The “unterrified” are assured that a State organization is the mooted question.—Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Jan. 1.
