Ozarkian
English
Etymology
Ozark + -ian
Adjective
Ozarkian (comparative more Ozarkian, superlative most Ozarkian)
- Of or from the Ozark region of the United States.
- 2012, Sarah Menkedick, Vela, Volume 1:
- It was an Appalachian phrase, he said, or maybe it was Ozarkian – a saying that emerged from a hardscrabble landscape, a realm of rural poverty that always brought to my mind quilts and bonnets and hand-made brooms.
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Noun
Ozarkian (plural Ozarkians)
- An inhabitant of the Ozark region of the United States.
- 2000, Mitch Jayne, Home Grown Stories and Home Fried Lies, page 235:
- Another Ozarkian who I met after I'd been gone a long time, told me that her oldest son hadn't been accepted into the Army because he "couldn't pass mustard," but was now a "highway petroleum."
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