See hillbilly on Wiktionary
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "someone who is from the hills",
"word": "kamparanaĉo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "someone who is from the hills",
"word": "metsäläinen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "someone who is from the hills",
"word": "maalaistollo"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "someone who is from the hills",
"tags": [
"derogatory"
],
"word": "péquenaud"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "someone who is from the hills",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Hinterwäldler"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "someone who is from the hills",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cábóg"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "someone who is from the hills",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "montanaro"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "someone who is from the hills",
"word": "buzzurro"
},
{
"alt": "いなかもの",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "inakamono",
"sense": "someone who is from the hills",
"word": "田舎者"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "sélanec",
"sense": "someone who is from the hills",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "се́ланец"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "someone who is from the hills",
"tags": [
"derogatory"
],
"word": "wieśniak"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "someone who is from the hills",
"tags": [
"Brazil",
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "caipira"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "someone who is from the hills",
"tags": [
"Portugal",
"masculine"
],
"word": "labrego"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "someone who is from the hills",
"tags": [
"Portugal"
],
"word": "saloio"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "derevenščina",
"sense": "someone who is from the hills",
"word": "деревенщина"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "someone who is from the hills",
"tags": [
"Mexico",
"Northern",
"masculine",
"regional",
"slang"
],
"word": "chúntaro"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "someone who is from the hills",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gwladwr"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "white person from the rural southern United States",
"word": "metsäläinen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "white person from the rural southern United States",
"word": "Hillbilly"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "white person from the rural southern United States",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sudista"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "xíllbilli",
"sense": "white person from the rural southern United States",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "хи́ллбилли"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "white person from the rural southern United States",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "prostački"
}
],
"word": "hillbilly"
}
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"2": "hill",
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"name": "compound"
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{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "chapman billie",
"t": "travelling salesman"
},
"expansion": "Scots chapman billie (“travelling salesman”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From hill + billy (“fellow”). Compare Scots chapman billie (“travelling salesman”).",
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{
"form": "hillbillies",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "hillbillying",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
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{
"ref": "1991, The Commonwealth Review - Volume 3, page 189:",
"text": "Hillbillying troubadors, the bohemians of a new world, not cafe society but more like the poor white origins of an Elvis Presley.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2002 April 1, Marie Brenner, “The Enron Wars”, in Vanity Fair:",
"text": "Like Ken Lay, [Rebecca] Mark came from a small town in Missouri, one of four children in a farm family with deep fundamentalist beliefs. Her conversational style has been polished in Texas, and she is a master of “hillbillying,” the trick of playing up one’s humble origins.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2004 April 30, Lesley Stahl, “Hardball”, in MSNBC:",
"text": "And Kerry doesn’t know how to hillbilly. And it is not a Texas thing, by the way. John F. Kennedy used to hillbilly us. And that meant that he flirted with us. He had a twinkle. Bill Clinton hillbillied us. And Kerry has got to learn how to do that. He has got to dial back and show some relaxed affability.",
"type": "quote"
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"To emphasize one's rural or humble upbringing; to use unsophisticated charm."
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"categories": [
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{
"ref": "2001, The New York Times Biographical Service, Volume 32, page 1540:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Laurel Snyder, Half/life: Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes, →ISBN, page 25:",
"text": "God damned mother fuckin son of a bitch cock suckin' asshole, who the fuck does he think he is, that dumb ass, half-brained, hillbillied redneck, given me that Jew shit when he's coppin' money and nobody's got the balls to stand up to him and they're gonna let me take the rap?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Tim Hollis, Ain't That a Knee-Slapper, →ISBN, page 125:",
"text": "The Warner Bros. cartoons, after having hillbillied themselves nearly to death during the 1930s, did not return to the trend during the late 1940s.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"To portray or act as an uneducated and unsophisticated fool."
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[
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},
{
"glosses": [
"To perform or experience stereotypically hillbilly-like actions."
],
"links": [
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"perform",
"perform"
],
[
"experience",
"experience"
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"ipa": "/ˈhɪlˌbɪli/"
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"word": "hillbilly"
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