backwoodishadj.
= backwoodsy adj.
ΘΚΠ
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
1836 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 3 496/1 The inn here is genuine Highland: low-built,..backwoodish.
1946 A. Koestler Thieves in Night 147 Our own crowd of..men and women, mute, wary and back~woodish as we had become during this first long hard year.
Derivatives
backˈwoodishness n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] > quality or condition of
peasantryc1592
peasanthood1830
backwoodishness1855
peasantism1901
1855 L. Oliphant Minnesota & Far West 93 There was not a particle of backwoodishness about them.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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adj.1836