backwoodsy

adj

Etymology

From backwoods + -y.

Definitions

  1. Typical of something or someone from the backwoods

    • 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.
    • Bang's rough violin scrapes convey a backwoodsy ruralism, recalling the rootsy fiddle playing of southern prewar black string bands[…].

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