Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Resembling or characteristic of the extended informal discussions carried on by persons habitually assembled at a country store.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective characteristic of country life.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characteristic of country life
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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With his rumpled clothes and corncob pipe, he was the image of the American cracker-barrel professor eager to mix it up with anyone in a public forum.
Paul Goodman: Recounting Forgotten Man on the Attack Richard B. Woodward 2011
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Atticus is a repository of cracker-barrel epigrams.
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But then I never thought I'd see the day when "To Kill A Mockingbird" --- a novel that has inspired readers for half a century --- would be derided as a book about "the limitations of liberalism" (by Malcolm Gladwell, no less, in The New Yorker, of all places) and "a sugar-coated myth of Alabama's past" with a hero who's "a repository of cracker-barrel epigrams" (by Allen Barra, in the Wall Street Journal)
Jesse Kornbluth: On Its 50th Birthday, Why Is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Being Attacked? 2010
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But then I never thought I'd see the day when "To Kill A Mockingbird" --- a novel that has inspired readers for half a century --- would be derided as a book about "the limitations of liberalism" (by Malcolm Gladwell, no less, in The New Yorker, of all places) and "a sugar-coated myth of Alabama's past" with a hero who's "a repository of cracker-barrel epigrams" (by Allen Barra, in the Wall Street Journal)
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Silly cracker-barrel stuff, mostly, although he had a curious store of half-learned knowledge; Bunyan was a favourite, and he was well up on Napoleon and Caesar and assorted military history.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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It's a low-key, philosophical musing reminiscent of the voice-over that opens THE BIG LEBOWSKI but played for real rather than as a caricature of the cracker-barrel cowboy spirit-guide vibe you get in the earlier movie.
Freeform Critique Hal Duncan 2008
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But then I never thought I'd see the day when "To Kill A Mockingbird" --- a novel that has inspired readers for half a century --- would be derided as a book about "the limitations of liberalism" (by Malcolm Gladwell, no less, in The New Yorker, of all places) and "a sugar-coated myth of Alabama's past" with a hero who's "a repository of cracker-barrel epigrams" (by Allen Barra, in the Wall Street Journal)
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It's a low-key, philosophical musing reminiscent of the voice-over that opens THE BIG LEBOWSKI but played for real rather than as a caricature of the cracker-barrel cowboy spirit-guide vibe you get in the earlier movie.
Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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So now Pound was safe, and he became the cracker-barrel philosopher of free verse.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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So now Pound was safe, and he became the cracker-barrel philosopher of free verse.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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