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Definition of Country-bred
1. Adjective. Rough and uncouth. "A country boy"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Country-bred
Literary usage of Country-bred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1902)
"The tints assumed by the Indian country-bred are as varied, almost, as those of
the rainbow ; whilst his screech, in moments of emotion, has an unrivalled ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"Nearly all our leading naturalists were country-bred boys. So flourishing an
organization as the Society of Natural History at Boston, counts, we believe, ..."
3. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1856)
"It was my fortune (I do not say mii-fortune) to be country-bred, and I well
remember my visit, when a boy, to the neighboring city, mounted on a nag whose ..."
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