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folksy, a. orig. U.S.|ˈfəʊksɪ|
[f. folks, pl. of folk + -y1.]
1. Sociable; also, unpretentiously companionable; informal, casual.
1852L. Clappe Let. from Calif. 15 Mar. (1922) 199 ‘They ain't kinder like eour folks’, or, as that universal Aunt Somebody used so expressively to observe, ‘Somehow, they ain't folksy!’ 1868A. D. Whitney P. Strong's Outings 178 So pleasant and folksy. 1890Harper's Mag. Dec. 138/2 I'd kind o' thought 'twould be folksy an'..cheerful. 1892R. T. Cooke Huckleberries 331 I'm real folksy; grasshoppers ain't no neighbours to me. 1942D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) v. 117 The public really doesn't like its idols to be folksy. 1953John o' London's 23 Jan. 76/4 A homesy, folksy, knowing account of a small town boy called Jason.
2. Having the characteristics of folk-art, culture, etc.; esp. ostensibly or artificially folkish.
1947A. Einstein Mus. Romantic Era vi. 55 Mozart is not ‘folksy’: he is always himself. 1949New Statesman 15 Oct. 422/1 A chorus of youths and maidens, wearing a specially designed fancy dress of folksy cut. 1958Manch. Guardian 20 Sept. 4/6 There lingers around the island of Lundy..an agreeable aura of folksy romance, eminently conducive to fables and premonitions. 1964M. Anderson Saint at Stake xx. 174 Even the least ‘folksy’ modern doctors admit that in such cases ‘magic’ is sometimes effective.
Hence ˈfolksiness, the state or quality of being ‘folksy’ (in either sense). orig. U.S.
1931P. W. Slosson Gt. Crusade viii. 227 The democratic geniality and ‘folksiness’ which Michigan..ranked as the chief of human virtues. 1956Ess. Divers Hands XXVIII. 80 There is a smack of folk-lore about them, but no earnest, bespectacled folksiness. 1961Times 9 Feb. 3/1 The folksiness of choruses and peasant dances recalls Der Freischütz. |