hillbilly
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
- Someone who is from the hills; especially from a rural area, with a connotation of a lack of refinement or sophistication.
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A white person from the rural southern part of the United States, especially the Southeastern states.
— 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.
动词 v.
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To emphasize one's rural or humble upbringing; to use unsophisticated charm.
— Hillbillying troubadors, the bohemians of a new world, not cafe society but more like the poor white origins of an Elvis Presley.
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To portray or act as an uneducated and unsophisticated fool.
— 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.
- To perform or experience stereotypically hillbilly-like actions.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From hill + billy (“fellow”). Compare Scots chapman billie (“travelling salesman”).
词源 2
From hill + billy (“fellow”). Compare Scots chapman billie (“travelling salesman”).
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