Greyback
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
`Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War
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a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
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a dowitcher with a grey back
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- graybackknot
- plural
- Greybacks
- possessive
- Greyback's
- pluralpossessive
- Greybacks'