swampbilly

swampbilly

English

Etymology

swamp +‎ billy, modeled on hillbilly.

Noun

swampbilly (plural swampbillies)

1. (US, informal) a poor, uneducated person from rural swampland areas
   • 2018, Dr. Daniene Marciano, Pillars of a Legacy: An Italian Experience, Dog Ear Publishing (→ISBN), page 247:

     “Some had called them a 'swampbilly' because they lived in shanty houseboats,” he said.

   • 2013, Ralph Bourne, The Unfortunate Crack in the Universe: A Wheezy Tweet Adventure, Wheatmark, Inc. (→ISBN), page 163:

     She get mad at Daddy 'cause he a swampbilly!

   • 2014, Mark Nichols, A Blink Through Time, Lulu Press, Inc (→ISBN)

     She was relieved he hadn't taken the bridge, which stretched for eons across the swamps of Louisiana, and housed little in the way of civvies save for National Guardsmen in training or the occasional jugswilling hillbilly (aka swampbilly).

   • 2001, Dan Levine, Avant-Guide New Orleans: Insiders' Guide for Urban Adventurers, Empire Press (→ISBN)

     Yet to some extent the "swampbilly" epithet was correct. Cajuns floated around on basic wooden houseboats, inter-married, subsisted on fishing and trapping, spoke their own provincial form of the French language, ...

   • 2017, Robert Edmond Alter, Shovel Nose and the Gator Grabbers, Wildside Press LLC (→ISBN), page 65:

     He traveled the back hills and swamplands peddling his utterly worthless “Dr . O . L . Weems Marvelous Metamorphic Magical Medicine” to the hillbillies and swampbillies for a dollar per pint bottle or a dollar six-bits for two.