hillbilly
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hillbilly
- /ˈhɪlˌbɪli/
Where it comes from
From hill + billy (“fellow”). Compare Scots chapman billie (“travelling salesman”).
noun hillbillies
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Someone who is from the hills; especially from a rural area, with a connotation of a lack of refinement or sophistication.
Similar: hick, bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, culchie, carl, churl, corncob, cornhusker, country bumpkin
- 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.
verb hillbillies · hillbillying · hillbillied
- 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.
- 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.
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noun someone who is from the hills
| Español | chúntaro |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 田舎者 inakamono, いなかっぺ |
| Português | caipira, labrego, saloio |
| Français | péquenaud |
| Deutsch | Hinterwäldler |
| Italiano | montanaro, buzzurro |
| Русский | деревенщина derevenščina |
noun white person from the rural southern United States
| Deutsch | Hillbilly |
|---|---|
| Italiano | sudista |
| Русский | хи́ллбилли xíllbilli |
Talk about this word "hillbilly." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/hillbilly. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. hillbilly. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/hillbilly "hillbilly." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/hillbilly.Cite this
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