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hillbilly

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈhɪlˌbɪli/Part of speech nounSorted bhiillllyStarts with HEnds with Y0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person

Word origin

From hill + billy (“fellow”). Compare Scots chapman billie (“travelling salesman”).

Used in a sentence

  • Thanks to the massive migration from the poorer regions of Appalachia to places like Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, hillbilly values spread widely along with hillbilly people.
  • Hillbillying troubadors, the bohemians of a new world, not cafe society but more like the poor white origins of an Elvis Presley.
  • I think that 20 to 30 years ago nonfundamentalists in America did make a great mistake by typing them, by hillbillying and backwoodsing and holy-rollering them.

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