backwoodsy, a.
[f. as prec. + -y1.]
Of the nature of the backwoods.
| 1862 B. Taylor Home & Abr. II. 72 Wild and backwoodsy as the place appeared. a 1910 ‘O. Henry’ Rolling Stones (1916) xvi. 205, I want a scrubby, ornery,..back-woodsy, piebald gang, who never heard of finger bowls. 1951 D. Riesman in American Scholar X. 271 Such people did not want to appear backwoodsy and bigoted. |