Swampbilly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Swampbilly is a noun meaning (US, informal) a poor, uneducated person from rural swampland areas.
Meaning
(US, informal) a poor, uneducated person from rural swampland areas.
Example Sentences
She get mad at Daddy 'cause he a swampbilly!
“Some had called them a 'swampbilly' because they lived in shanty houseboats,” he said.
Yet to some extent the "swampbilly" epithet was correct. Cajuns floated around on basic wooden houseboats, inter-married, subsisted on fishing and trapping, spoke their own provincial form of the French language, .
He traveled the back hills and swamplands peddling his utterly worthless “Dr . O . L . Weems Marvelous Metamorphic Magical Medicine” to the hillbillies and swampbillies for a dollar per pint bottle or a dollar six-bits for two.
Word Forms
- swampbillies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include swamper, swamplander, backwoodser, hillbilly, mudsill, backwoodsman.
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