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backwood | backword |

As an adjective backwood

is native to or located in a remote rural location.

As a noun backword is

a contention, retort, or reply.

backwood

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Native to or located in a remote rural location.
  • * 1885 , , True to the Old Flag , chapter 1 — A Frontier Farm:
    • The house itself, although far more spacious and comfortable than the majority of backwood farmhouses, was built in the usual fashion, of solid logs, and was evidently designed to resist attack.
  • * 2000 , Helen Gibson, " Another Archer Mystery", Time , April 17:
    • Despite the court victory, Archer resigned as deputy chairman and rehabilitated himself by working as a party stalwart in backwood constituencies.
  • Rustic, unsophisticated, countrified.
  • * 1859 , , Life of George Washington , ch. 4:
    • Here, after supper, most of the company stretched themselves in backwood style, before the fire; but Washington was shown into a bedroom.
  • * 1889 , , Cressy , ch. 10:
    • "That's what you mean, dandy boy — for you're only a dandy boy, you know, and they don't get married to backwood Southern girls."

    Related terms

    * backwoods

    backword

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A contention, retort, or reply.
  • A contradiction or answer to put off an engagement; a countermand.
  • A section of commentary at the end of a book.

    • See also

    * foreword