Backwoodsy
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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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