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Backwoods vs Backwoodsy - What's the difference?

backwoods | backwoodsy |

As adjectives the difference between backwoods and backwoodsy

is that backwoods is pertaining to the backwoods while backwoodsy is (us) typical of something or someone from the backwoods.

As a noun backwoods

is partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in north america.

backwoods

English

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America.
  • A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
  • *1834 , (w), A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p.22:
  • *:about that time, you mayreckon, if like me you belong to the back-woods , that I began to make up my acquaintance with hard times, and a plenty of them.
  • *
  • *:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to the backwoods.
  • Rough, uncouth, coarse, or crude in social matters.

    • Synonyms

    * backwood

    References

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    Derived terms

    * backwoodsman

    backwoodsy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (US) Typical of something or someone from the backwoods
  • * {{quote-news, year=1989, date=March 3, author=John A. Jenkins, title=High Stakes, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Johnson, 45 years old with thinning blond hair, was a strapping, cigar-smoking man from Owensboro, Kentucky, who still spoke in a kind of slow, backwoodsy drawl. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1994, date=April 8, author=Peter Margasak, title=Kahil El'Zabar, Malachi Favors, Billy Bang, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Bang's rough violin scrapes convey a backwoodsy ruralism, recalling the rootsy fiddle playing of southern prewar black string bands

    Synonyms

    * backwoods

    Derived terms

    * backwoodsiness