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Ozarkian, a. and n.|ˈəʊzaːkɪən -ˈzaːkɪən|
[f. as *Ozarker n. + -ian.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Ozark region or its inhabitants; = Ozark a.
1928in Funk's Stand. Dict. 1930Outlook 10 Sept. 60/3 It is like the hissing of a rattler to the Ozarkian landowner who has controlled this region since our country was organized. 1936Mencken Amer. Lang. (ed. 4) vii. 360 Pronunciation of the hillmen..is identical with Ozarkian usage. 1941O. E. Rayburn Ozark Country i. 10 This colorful Ozarkian dialect is rapidly passing. 1947J. H. Brown Outdoors Unlimited 75 I've shot from Texas coastals.., around through..Ozarkian woods rims at bevies flushing..from wintered reed beds. 1971Holiday Apr. 110/3 We got moving in his Renault 17, chatting of things Ozarkian.
B. n. A native or inhabitant of the Ozark region; = *Ozarker n.; also, the dialect spoken by these people.
1928in Funk's Stand. Dict. 1930Outlook 10 Sept. 60/2 The Ozarkians, if such the tribe could be called, have lived lazy, kin marrying, morally clean, but none too God-loving lives. 1949M. Pei Story of Lang. v. 46 This would establish..Ozarkian and Brooklynese as languages. 1971J. Harty Licklog Holler v. 43 One Ozarkian..put it this way: ‘I want to be situated all the time so that I can look any damn man in the face and tell him to go to hell.’ 1987N.Y. Times 11 Jan. iia. 2/1 The disarming ‘Shepherd of the Hills’..with John Wayne and Betty Field as Ozarkians. |