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- adjective US Typical of something or someone from the
backwoods
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Examples
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"But the people running trotlines and grabbling are kind of backwoodsy," Jackson says.
In the Monster's Maw 1997
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If there's anybody selling game, it's probably going to be backwoodsy folks.
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Even among musicians of a backwoodsy type, Sam Beam stands apart as a man of some dedication and resolve.
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Unless we're counting the messages on Westboro Baptist Church signs, I don't think anyone even calls Brüno a "fag" until the climax, a man-on-man make-out session at a cage match that has its meth-faced, backwoodsy audience hanging their heads, gasping for air and punching themselves in the face in response (for all their willingness to play to type, they are real live Brünos).
fourfour: 2009
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If there's anybody selling game, it's probably going to be backwoodsy folks.
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The boy had lived in a backwoodsy neighborhood of Pennsylvania and wore shoes with split laces.
Hungry Amy Butcher 2010
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As for the statement by Mr. Wes Ketcham...well we aren't so backwoodsy that we have to think about this for the next several years before we accept it.
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Sallow-eyed, furtive, maybe a little brighter than the poor boy in the grocery store, backwoodsy but not an idiot.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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Sallow-eyed, furtive, maybe a little brighter than the poor boy in the grocery store, backwoodsy but not an idiot.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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Sallow-eyed, furtive, maybe a little brighter than the poor boy in the grocery store, backwoodsy but not an idiot.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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