Brewer's: Kentucky

(U.S. America), so called in 1782, from its principal river. It was admitted into the union in 1792. The nickname of the inhabitants is Corncrackers. Indian Shawnoese Kentuckee = “head or long river.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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