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ˈup-country, up-ˈcountry, n., a., and adv.
[up a. and prep.2]
As adv. and adj. the phrase is current in English dialects (cf. quot. 1688), but the general 19th century use originated partly in India and partly in the United States; from c 1875 it has also been employed in, or with reference to, Australia, South Africa, etc.
1. n.
†a. An uplying or inland district. Obs.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 352/2 A Pit Saw in a Frame..is not in use with us, but in the Up Countreys.
b. The inland part of a country.
Used without article, or with the.
(a)1837[Mrs. Maitland] Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 110, I continue to like ‘up country,’ as they call it, far better than the Presidency. 1888[D'Avigdor] Antipod. Notes v. 30 Thousands from up-country make their annual business visit to the capital. 1897P. Warung Tales Old Regime 162 To say good-bye before leaving for up-country.
(b)1817M. L. Weems Let. in M. L. Weems: Works & Ways (1929) III. 176, I have a number due in the up country. 1835J. H. Ingraham South-West I. xxiii. 248 In the cabin are the merchants and planters of the ‘up country’. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 163 The nearest districts became early known..as the Up Country. 1894Cent. Mag. April 849 Later generations in the up-country have applied the word to the products of corn after cooking.
2. adj. Situated in, belonging or relating to, etc., the inland part of a country, or a part of the country away from any town. (Now rare in the U.K.)
In this sense and as adv. sometimes implying ‘higher in altitude’.
1810M. L. Weems Let. in M. L. Weems: Works & Ways (1929) III. 27 Not thinking the little up-country post offices safe in matters of money [etc.]. 1831Canton Miscell. V. 321 Up-country stations in India. 1835Macaulay in Trevelyan Life (1876) I. 406 Any [library] which would be readily accessible at an up-country station [in India]. 1859F. Fuller Five Years' Residence N.Z. xi. 233 The up⁓country tracks were not then marked out. 1861Clough Mari Magno 29 What racy tales of Yankeeland he had! Up-country girl, up-country farmer lad. 1874Ranken Domin. Australia xiii. 237 The ‘up-country store-keeper’..sells everything wholesale or retail. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. p. xliii, Models..of European up-country bungalows, and..of a bazaar in an up-country town. 1911C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xx. 193 The fact that each of seven station hands could agree to put in {pstlg}70 may throw some light upon the conditions amongst upcountry workers in Australia. 1911W. H. Koebel In Maoriland Bush xxii. 284 Homely little upcountry race meetings. 1923[see station n. 13 d]. 1929K. S. Prichard Coonardoo xvi. 162 Poor degraded wretches,..drifting about the up-country towns and settlements along the coast. 1962J. Frame Edge of Alphabet xviii. 102 How I would have liked to..live in an upcountry house whose tall windows faced the mountains. 1965B. Wannan Fair Go, Spinner iv. 131 The Drongo once got a job on an up-country farm. 1970Kenya Farmer Feb. 9/1 One of the greatest pleasures that Kenya can offer—a weekend on an ‘up country’ farm. 1977Church Times 29 July 6/3 A BCMS missionary nurse in upcountry Uganda. 1981Times 2 Feb. 16/7 He was the first Kandyan (upcountry) Sinhalese Buddhist to be appointed Governor-General, his predecessor having been a low country Sinhalese Christian.
3. adv. In or to the inland part of a country. Also, away from any town, remote.
1864Trevelyan Compet. Wallah 31 A young couple going to an appointment up-country. 1866M. A. Barker Station Life N.Z. (1870) vi. 37, I had danced with a young gentleman whose station was a long way ‘up country’. 1889‘J. S. Winter’ Mrs. Bob iii, Whilst we were up-country,..we met Colonel Coles. 1891Kipling Light that Failed ii, I'm going up-country with a column. 1891G. Chamier Philosopher Dick i. ii. 43 Here, up country, we have mostly a moving population of tramps, topers and outcasts. 1911E. M. Clowes On Wallaby iv. 86 Up-country the sundowner, or bona fide worker in search for a job, will find ‘tucker’ for the asking at any farm or station. 1911W. H. Koebel In Maoriland Bush xiii. 183 Nature is a staunch friend to this obsolete atmosphere. Nowhere, perhaps, does it come to its aid with greater fervour than in New Zealand, up⁓country. 1962J. Frame Edge of Alphabet i. 14 As if his head were a secret gully somewhere up-country. 1962Housewife (Ceylon) Apr. 10 Children's woollen clothes very moderately priced and ideal for wear, both up⁓country and abroad. 1971Inside Kenya Today Mar. 48/1 Farmers..can grow a variety of crops—just as much as their counterparts up-country could. 1980Word 1979 XXX. 167 Transportation problems, levels of literacy, as well as economic factors, tend to restrict the diffusion of the newspapers up-country. |