Ozarkian
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An inhabitant of the Ozark region of the United States.
"Another Ozarkian who I met after I'd been gone a long time, told me that her oldest son hadn't been accepted into the Army because he "couldn't pass mustard," but was now a "highway petroleum.""
- 1 Of or from the Ozark region of the United States.
"It was an Appalachian phrase, he said, or maybe it was Ozarkian – a saying that emerged from a hardscrabble landscape, a realm of rural poverty that always brought to my mind quilts and bonnets and hand-made brooms."
Example
More examples"It was an Appalachian phrase, he said, or maybe it was Ozarkian – a saying that emerged from a hardscrabble landscape, a realm of rural poverty that always brought to my mind quilts and bonnets and hand-made brooms."
Etymology
From Ozark + -ian.
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