Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Heavily wooded, uncultivated, thinly settled areas.
- noun plural An area that is far from population centers or that is held to be culturally backward.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wooded or partially uncleared and unsettled districts in the remote parts of a new country; hence, in the United States and Canada, any rough or thinly settled region far from the centers of population.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Partly or wholly
uncleared forest , especially in North America. - noun A
remote orsparsely inhabited region , especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life. - adjective Pertaining to the backwoods.
- adjective
Rough ,uncouth ,coarse , orcrude in social matters.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a remote and undeveloped area
Etymologies
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Examples
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And the Conservative cause no longer can be found at the tweedy, collegiate haunts but rather prefers to be spread out at some beer bar in backwoods Alabama.
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Maybe in backwoods Alaska she can say what she wants, but in now she's where she can be sued for her lies ...
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I'm alternately running and driving through this Gaimanesque forest/Wisconsin backwoods, when I get to THE BORDER.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008
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Funny that in backwoods of Tennessee they call them Inbred Hicks, you call them Royalty.
Think Progress » Limbaugh: Euphoria Over Alito, A “European” “Married Male” 2005
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Somewhere in backwoods Georgia we visited a monastery, a showpiece of religious tolerance.
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Somewhere in backwoods Georgia we visited a monastery, a showpiece of religious tolerance.
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Don's most popular poem during his lifetime was "Noah an 'Jonah an' Cap'n John Smith," a rambling farce, told in backwoods dialect, about three fishing buddies with unique knowledge of the subject at hand.
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46 CONNECTICUT LAKES From flyfishing in backwoods beaver bogs to trolling on bigger lakes, June is prime time for trout and salmon in northern New Hampshire.
A STATE-BY-STATE GUIDE TO THE HOTTEST LAKES, RIVERS, STREAMS, AND HONEY HOLES IN AMERICA 2007
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Rather, it seeks to draw attention to the question of whether Canadian legal education should move toward the situation in the US, where an abundance of no-name backwoods law schools saturate the market with marginally-educated lawyers.
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Her pronunciation needs tidying up if she is not to be dubbed a backwoods hick.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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