BACKWOODS, BACKWOODSMAN
ADJECTIVES
1809 ► PINEY dwelling in the backwoods; rustic, primitive → Amer. dial.
1809 ► PINEY-WOOD dwelling in the backwoods; rustic, primitive → Amer. dial.
1958 ► TURPENTINE of the backwoods, rustic → Amer. dial.
NOUNS
M19. ► TALL TIMBER the backwoods, the rural areas → US sl.
1909 ► PINEY WOODS backwoods → Amer. dial.
1934 ► BACKBRUSH backwoods → Amer. dial.
1944 ► BOONDOCKS the backwoods, rough or wild country; rural backcountry; the sticks; an out-of-the-way place → Amer. dial.
1953 ► JILLIKENS backwoods → Amer. dial.
1956 ► BOONIES the backwoods, an out-of-the-way or a very unimportant place → Amer. dial.
NOUNS, PERSON
1766 ► CRACKER a backwoods Southern White person regarded as ignorant, brutal, loutish, bigoted, etc.; used contemptuously → Amer. sl.
1770 ► BACK PEOPLE people who live in the back country → Amer. dial.
1865 ► COUNTRY CRACKER a backwoodsman, a rustic or countrified person → Amer. dial.
1809 ► BUSH-BEATER a backwoodsman; accustomed to beat about or make his way through bushes; a bush-ranger
1809 ► BUSHWHACKER a backwoodsman → Amer. dial.
1837 ► MOUNTAINEER a backwoodsman; a trapper → US
1847 ► MOUNTAIN MAN a backwoodsman; a trapper; a pioneer → US
1872 ► CREEKER a backwoodsman, a rustic, a hick → Amer. dial.
1873 ► MOSSBACK a person living in the backwoods; a rustic → colloq.
1911 ► WOOD HICK a backwoodsman; a hillbilly → Amer. dial.
1913 ► YAHOO an uncouth backwoodsman → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1930 ► BUSHNIPPLE a backwoodsman; a hermit → Amer. dial.
1935 ► BUSH RAT a backwoodsman; a woodsman → Amer. dial.
1953 ► URIAH an ignorant, uncouth backwoodsman → Amer. dial.
PHRASES
2000 ► FROM HORSE AND BUGGY from the backwoods; unsophisticated → sl.
VERBS
1809 ► BUSHWHACK to live in the backwoods → Amer. dial.
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