Backwoodsy

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Typical of something or someone from the backwoods US

    "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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From backwoods + -y.

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