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Backwoodsiness vs Backwoodsy - What's the difference?

backwoodsiness | backwoodsy | Derived terms |

Backwoodsiness is a derived term of backwoodsy.


As an adjective backwoodsy is

(us) typical of something or someone from the backwoods.

backwoodsiness

Not English

Backwoodsiness has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'backwoodsiness':

basidiospores

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