backwoodsy
English
Etymology
backwoods + -y
Adjective
backwoodsy (comparative more backwoodsy, superlative most backwoodsy)
- (US) Typical of something or someone from the backwoods
- 1989 March 3, John A. Jenkins, “High Stakes”, in Chicago Reader:
- Johnson, 45 years old with thinning blond hair, was a strapping, cigar-smoking man from Owensboro, Kentucky, who still spoke in a kind of slow, backwoodsy drawl.
- 1994 April 8, Peter Margasak, “Kahil El'Zabar, Malachi Favors, Billy Bang”, in Chicago Reader:
- Bang's rough violin scrapes convey a backwoodsy ruralism, recalling the rootsy fiddle playing of southern prewar black string bands […] .
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Synonyms
- backwoods
Derived terms
- backwoodsiness