country cousin

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country cousin

noun country cousins

  1. informal An acquaintance from the countryside, who is regarded by city dwellers as being poorly adapted for city life. And how like a country cousin, to come down upon a poor body in this way, without so much as a day’s notice, or asking whether she would be welcome!

    Similar: bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, culchie, carl, churl, corncob, cornhusker, country bumpkin, country cousin

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@misc{country_cousin_2026,
  title = {country cousin},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/country%20cousin},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}