backwoods

[ bak-woodz ]

/ ˈbækˈwʊdz /

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noun

(often used with a singular verb) wooded or partially uncleared and unsettled districts.

any remote or isolated area.

adjective Also backwood, backwoodsy.

of or relating to the backwoods.

unsophisticated; uncouth.

OTHER WORDS FOR backwoods

2 hinterland, provinces, wild, woodland; sticks, boondocks, boonies, bush, backwater.

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Origin of backwoods

An Americanism dating back to 1700–10; back¹ + woods¹ (in the sense “a forest”)

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How to use backwoods in a sentence

I feel like eating all that myself;' and, trencher on knee, they dined with real backwood appetites.
Cedar Creek|Elizabeth Hely Walshe
We found them very busy felling trees, clearing backwood, and completing the stockade or fort.
Borneo and the Indian Archipelago|Frank S. Marryat
A stable and pig-sty completed the appurtenances of this backwood dwelling.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846|Various
After the trial the humble backwood speaker freely praised the eloquence of the mature advocate.
Lincoln, the Politician|T. Aaron Levy

Here, in the multiplicity of footprints, he knew his own would be indistinguishable to even the keenest of backwood eyes.
Jim|Charles G. D. Roberts

British Dictionary definitions for backwoods

backwoods

/ (ˈbækwʊdz) /

pl n

mainly US and Canadian partially cleared, sparsely populated forests

any remote sparsely populated place

(modifier) of, from, or like the backwoods

(modifier) uncouth; rustic

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