Cracker-barrel
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Folksy; characteristic of simple small-town people. US
"Robert Frost was a nice old New England guy with a lot of cracker-barrel wisdom that the government, somehow or other, saw fit to honor because he read a poem, or something, at the Kennedy inaugural."
Adjective
- 1 characteristic of country life wordnet
Synonyms
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More examples"Robert Frost was a nice old New England guy with a lot of cracker-barrel wisdom that the government, somehow or other, saw fit to honor because he read a poem, or something, at the Kennedy inaugural."
Etymology
Attributive form of cracker barrel. From the image of a group of locals sitting around the cracker barrel in a general store talking together.
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