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folkiness

noun

Etymology

From folky + -ness.

  1. inherited from *fulką✻
  2. inherited from *folk✻
  3. inherited from folc
  4. inherited from folk
  5. suffixed as folky — “folk + y”
  6. suffixed as folkiness — “folky + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being folky.

    • “Wolves (Song of the Shepherd’s Dog)” trades folkiness for something like funk, hinting at War and Talking Heads.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for folkiness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA