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Definition of Hillbilly
1. Noun. A disparaging term for an unsophisticated person.
Definition of Hillbilly
1. Noun. Someone who is from the hills; especially from a rural area, with a connotation of a lack of refinement or sophistication. ¹
2. Noun. A white person from the rural southern part of the United States. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hillbilly
1. [n -LIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hillbilly
Literary usage of Hillbilly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Later, the picture films presented the screeching parades in the streets, the
delegations in fancy dress—West Virginians with hillbilly overalls, ..."
2. Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern by Horace Kephart (1922)
"I'ma hillbilly, all right, and they needn't to glory their old flat lands to me !"
Domestic affection is seldom expressed by the mountaineers—not even by ..."
3. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"getting the word “hillbilly” taken off the label of his records, and therefore
inspiring everyone else in the trade to replace it with the more preferable ..."
4. America in Ferment by Paul Leland Haworth (1915)
"It is absurd to advance the intellectual argument and defend a system which admits
an illiterate negro or hillbilly to the polls while excluding an Ida ..."
5. Southern Appalachians: A History of the Landscape by Susan Yarnell (1999)
"The "hillbilly" stereotype also was used to justify the widespread expropriation
of mountain resources during the late 19th and early 20th centuries (Eller ..."
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