Notswolds

name, slang

name, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A region of central England thought to resemble the Cotswolds but to be less expensive to live in. informal

    "Yet I lived on the 'wrong side' of the Cotswolds divide – the Notswolds, as it's sometimes known, near Stratford-upon-Avon – and in large part thanks to Jilly, I felt it keenly. I longed to be one of the girls from the local clique of farming families who seemed to own half the county and attracted the Rupert Campbell-Black types."

Example

More examples

"Yet I lived on the 'wrong side' of the Cotswolds divide – the Notswolds, as it's sometimes known, near Stratford-upon-Avon – and in large part thanks to Jilly, I felt it keenly. I longed to be one of the girls from the local clique of farming families who seemed to own half the county and attracted the Rupert Campbell-Black types."

Etymology

Blend of not + Cotswolds.

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