backwoodsy

English

Etymology

backwoods +‎ -y

Adjective

backwoodsy (comparative more backwoodsy, superlative most backwoodsy)

1. (US) Typical of something or someone from the backwoods
   • 1989 March 3, John A. Jenkins, “High Stakes”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     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”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

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

Synonyms

• backwoods

Derived terms

• backwoodsiness