backwoods ((n.))†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.pl.

the bush country or back settlements; regions remote from well-settled, civilized areas.

Quotations

1834

As I am on the subject of eating, you may wish to know how we lived in the backwoods.

1964

The raw shanty lad who came out of the backwoods of Quebec . . . would win a place in the mythology of the last frontier.