secesh

Examples

• All

• Grant wants me to bring the secesh delegates to Washington.

  Lincoln (2012)

• All the secesh are watched.

  Ride with the Devil (1999)

• Besides, Tom had suggested to Reynolds that Mont could point out secesh conspirators around the hotel.

  Fiction book (1992)

• In a voice that sounded like a coffee grinder, he ordered, "Seize that secesh and his treasonous paper!"

  Fiction book (1992)

• Some reporter for p181 the Enterprise tipped off the soldiers that this was a secesh plot.

  Fiction book (1992)

• It was then that Tom realized the little man was Garrison, the infamous editor of the secesh newspaper.

  Fiction book (1992)

• "You know," Tom added, "if we go to the Comstock like Perry and the secesh want, that boat, or one like it, is how we'll travel upriver."

  Fiction book (1992)

• The Secesh often gathered in secret to discuss their plans for secession.

• During the Civil War, many Secesh sympathizers opposed the Union government.

• He was labeled a Secesh for his outspoken support of the Confederate cause.

Synonyms

S

secessionist

vssecesh

9 8.5

A person who wants their region to leave a country

is more informal and specific to a historical southern supporter

C

Confederate

vssecesh

3 8.7

A person from the southern states who fought for the side that left the United States in the Civil War

is an informal slang term rather than the standard historical label

Antonyms

U

unionist

19 4.1

A person who belongs to a group of workers that talks with employers

How Supportive

militant

164 7.4

secesh

• Archaic

1 9.9

supporter

817 1.0

sympathizer

1 4.3

neutral

2 4.2

opponent

3.4

Surface Forms

Etymology