DCHP-3

backwoods ((adj.))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1adj.

of, or having to do with, the backwoods.

Quotations

1835
. . . Dennistoun and I having polished our backwoods integuments a little wrote some letters.
1840
The tone . . . appears to have been in a great measure given by such Americans as came . . . from the back-wood tracts.
1959
In 1953 lobster cops raided a backwoods cannery at Pousette Lake, seven miles south of Shediac, N.B.
2adj.

native to, or living in, the backwoods.

Quotations

1845
. . . on the large airy-looking couches [was] displayed a splendid coverlet of homespun wool . . . the possessing of which is the first ambition of a back-wood matron.
1963
He [the Canada jay] is a backwoods bird.
3adj. — Derog.

marked by the absence of taste, tact, sophistication, etc.

Quotations

1852
Morgan . . . went into the kitchen to light his pipe at the stove, and, with true backwood carelessness, let the hot cinder fall among the dry chips that strewed the floor.
1902
. . . the Front, in all matters pertaining to culture and fashion thought itself quite superior to the more backwoods country of the Twentieth.
1963
Richard's reasoning is backwoods, his public broadcasting of the reasoning is bush.