• Backwoodsy

    Origin

    backwoods + -y

    Full definition of backwoodsy

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    backwoodsy

    1. (US) Typical of something or someone from the backwoods
      • 1989, March 3, John A. Jenkins, High Stakes, 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.
      • 1994, April 8, Peter Margasak, Kahil El'Zabar, Malachi Favors, Billy Bang, Bang's rough violin scrapes convey a backwoodsy ruralism, recalling the rootsy fiddle playing of southern prewar black string bands, while the title track with its propulsive near-swing finds him putting out a wild, Ornette-ish sound splash ...
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