释义 |
folky, a.|ˈfəʊkɪ| [f. folk + -y1.] Characteristic of the common people; = folksy a. 2. Hence ˈfolkiness, the state or quality of being folky.
1914A. H. Sidgwick Prom. Ticket 41 Schubert could have written..folk-songs, much better and much folkier than anything collected from embarrassed rustics. 1936Scrutiny V. 151 One admits the futility and sentimentality, at this date, of the folky composer. 1938L. MacNeice I Crossed Minch i. 8 That more blatant surface-charm or glamour—that sugared folkiness—which we are led to expect in out-of-the-way places. 1940Archit. Rev. LXXXVII. 87/2 What must be avoided at all costs is folky architecture. 1964Listener 20 Feb. 330/3 Conventional Slav folkiness. 1970E. Lee Music of People x. 197 The Seekers were beginning to gain a success with a ‘Folky Pop’ style. |