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Definition of Countrified
1. Adjective. Characteristic of rural life. "Rustic awkwardness"
Definition of Countrified
1. p. a. Having the appearance and manners of a rustic; rude.
Definition of Countrified
1. Adjective. Rural, rustic; unsophisticated. ¹
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Definition of Countrified
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Countrified
Literary usage of Countrified
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Viceregal Life in India: Selections from My Journal, 1884-1888 by Hamilton Dufferin And Ava (1890)
"It is quite delightful getting one's fingers well dirtied and feeling so countrified
as one does when one grubs up roots without any implement and carries ..."
2. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel (1874)
"... like the inhabitants of small (provincial) towns, provincial, countrified;
.... countrified ..."
3. Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein (1841)
"denotes more an intellectual, agrestis more a moral roughness ; rusticus, like
countrified, has a reference to bashfulness and uncouthness ; in its best ..."
4. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1856)
"I'm sure there is no room within for one so countrified." In learning's classic
temple, with an open brow and high, Stood one of nature's gentlemen, ..."
5. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"In fact, the deeper you penetrate into the woods, the more intelligent, and, in
one sense, less countrified do you find the inhabitants; for always the ..."
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