folksyadj.
/ˈfəʊksi/, U.S. /ˈfoʊksi/ Originally U.S.
1. Sociable; also, unpretentiously companionable; informal, casual.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [adjective] > sociable
companablea1387
familiarc1425
fellowlyc1425
companiable1440
fellowable1440
fellowlikec1454
accompanable1548
sociable1573
companionable1593
associable1611
conversablea1684
social1698
easy1714
gregarious1789
aggregative1837
company keeping1839
folksy1852
oncoming1925
mixy1942
outgoing1950
1852 L. Clappe Lett. 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!’
1868 A. D. Whitney Patience Strong's Outings 178 So pleasant and folksy.
1890 Harper's Mag. Dec. 138/2 I'd kind o' thought 'twould be folksy an'..cheerful.
1892 R. T. Cooke Huckleberries 331 I'm real folksy; grasshoppers ain't no neighbours to me.
1942 D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) v. 117 The public really doesn't like its idols to be folksy.
1953 John o' London's Weekly 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.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > characterized by other specific affectations
folky1914
arty1915
arty-farty1946
folksy1947
artsy-fartsy1962
ton-up1964
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [adjective] > traditional > folklore
folkloric1883
folky1914
folksy1947
1947 A. Einstein Music Romantic Era vi. 55 Mozart is not ‘folksy’: he is always himself.
1949 New Statesman 15 Oct. 422/1 A chorus of youths and maidens, wearing a specially designed fancy dress of folksy cut.
1958 Manch. Guardian 20 Sept. 4/6 There lingers around the island of Lundy..an agreeable aura of folksy romance, eminently conducive to fables and premonitions.
1964 M. D. Anderson Saint at Stake xx. 174 Even the least ‘folksy’ modern doctors admit that in such cases ‘magic’ is sometimes effective.
Derivatives
ˈfolksiness n. the state or quality of being ‘folksy’ (in either sense). Originally U.S.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > other specific affectations
Chinesery1855
pastoralism1880
Japonism1890
artiness1901
folksiness1931
folkiness1938
radical chic1970
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [noun] > state or quality of being sociable
sociability1581
sociableness1592
outgoingness1865
get-togetherness1906
folksiness1931
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > transmitted from one generation to another > folklore or folk culture > state of having or being
folksiness1931
folkiness1938
1931 P. W. Slosson Great Crusade viii. 227 The democratic geniality and ‘folksiness’ which Michigan..ranked as the chief of human virtues.
1956 Ess. Divers Hands XXVIII. 80 There is a smack of folk-lore about them, but no earnest, bespectacled folksiness.
1961 Times 9 Feb. 3/1 The folksiness of choruses and peasant dances recalls Der Freischütz.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1852