Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Persons living in the hills; hillmen.
- In Scand. myth., a class of beings intermediate between elves and men, inhabiting caves and hills.
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Examples
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These daughters of hill-folk with bad skin, anchor babies from Russellville chicken plants, and disabled vets like me -- WE ARE THE PROLETARIAT.
Matt Osborne: Cadillac Plans, Mandates, and the Proletariat 2010
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Since, as far as big-city comic book writers know, Pennsylvania is crawling with inbred hill-folk, it only stands to reason that Spider-man's one recorded visit to the state would lead him head first into the buck-toothed, in-bred-ed-est hillbilly clan possible.
Archive 2009-05-01 Brian Hughes 2009
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Since, as far as big-city comic book writers know, Pennsylvania is crawling with inbred hill-folk, it only stands to reason that Spider-man's one recorded visit to the state would lead him head first into the buck-toothed, in-bred-ed-est hillbilly clan possible.
Some Less-Than-Spectacular Spider-Man Foes Brian Hughes 2009
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Glen, nor dargle, nor mountain, nor cave, could hide the puir hill-folk when Redgauntlet was out with bugle and bloodhound after them, as if they had been sae mony deer.
Redgauntlet 2008
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He rose accordingly, and taking his sheathed broadsword under his arm to support the insolence which he meditated, placed himself in front of the stranger noticed by Niel Blane, in his admonitions to his daughter, as being, in all probability, one of the hill-folk, or refractory presbyterians.
Old Mortality 2004
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Most of the hill-folk shepherds were mongrels by Sunpriest standards anyway.
Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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Most of the hill-folk shepherds were mongrels by Sunpriest standards anyway.
Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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The little hill-folk sweat in the modified heat of the lower Siwaliks, and gather round the priests for their blessing and their wage.
Kim 2003
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And then a cry comes down, and she nods; Axel, maybe, or maybe the hill-folk, devils — anyway, something to sniff and scent and find — to worm out the meaning of it all, the wisdom of the Almighty with the dark and the forest in the hollow of His hand — and He would never harm Oline, that was not worthy to unloose the latchet of His shoes ...
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He was clad in a mixture of new hill-folk shirt and cloak and the ruins of civilized breeches and boots.
Conan the Relentless Green, Roland 1992
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