backwoodsyadj.
Of the nature of the backwoods.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [adjective] > remote or outlying
out of the wayc1175
uplandishc1380
foreign1424
outland1500
outlying1651
outsetting1658
back country1775
out-of-the-world1775
outlandish1792
outworld1808
upcountry1810
backwoodish1836
fresh water1860
backwoodsy1862
way back1884
outstate1911
upstate1935
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [adjective]
churlisha1000
ruric1488
rural1513
rusticalc1525
peasant1550
peasantly1569
clownish1570
rustic1576
shepherdly1579
russet1598
clownical1614
clown-likea1640
nut-brown1648
countrified1653
high-shoon1654
Corydonical1656
high-shod1656
sylvatic1661
villatic1671
russet-coated1683
one-gallus1881
one-gallused1887
red-necked1896
rube1898
takhaar1899
backwoodsya1910
swede-bashing1936
backwoodish1946
1862 B. Taylor At Home & Abroad II. 72 Wild and backwoodsy as the place appeared.
a1910 ‘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.
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adj.1862