Backwood
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈbækˌwʊd/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Backwood is an adjective meaning Native to or located in a remote rural location.
Meaning
Native to or located in a remote rural location.
More Meanings
- Rustic, unsophisticated, countrified.
Example Sentences
"That's what you mean, dandy boy — for you're only a dandy boy, you know, and they don't get married to backwood Southern girls."
Here, after supper, most of the company stretched themselves in backwood style, before the fire; but Washington was shown into a bedroom.
Despite the court victory, Archer resigned as deputy chairman and rehabilitated himself by working as a party stalwart in backwood constituencies.
The house itself, although far more spacious and comfortable than the majority of backwood farmhouses, was built in the usual fashion, of solid logs, and was evidently designed to resist attack.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include outback, hinterland, remote, inaccessible, unaccessible, boondocks.
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