"country cousin" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields:",
          "text": "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!",
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        {
          "ref": "1916 [1896], Henry James, The Figure in the Carpet:",
          "text": "Special commissioners had begun, in the “metropolitan press,” to be the fashion, and the journal in question must have felt it had passed too long for a mere country cousin.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951 September, Sally Iselin, “I Bought a Dress in Paris”, in The Atlantic:",
          "text": "As in Rome, it is considered very country-cousiny to be seen in the same dress more than twice.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 April 22, “Letters: Open Access: Changes in London”, in RAIL, number 903, page 31:",
          "text": "My fellow students, as politely as they could manage, explained to their up-country cousin why none of these things were possible or desirable.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 7, Jim Steer, “CrossCountry: the heart of the nation”, in RAIL, number 965, page 30:",
          "text": "CrossCountry is a poor country cousin of the London-centric set of long-distance services.",
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        "An acquaintance from the countryside, who is regarded by city dwellers as being poorly adapted for city life."
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          "acquaintance"
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          "countryside",
          "countryside"
        ],
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          "regarded",
          "regarded"
        ],
        [
          "city dweller",
          "city dweller"
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        [
          "poorly",
          "poorly"
        ],
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          "adapted",
          "adapted"
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      ],
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        "(informal) An acquaintance from the countryside, who is regarded by city dwellers as being poorly adapted for city life."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "country bumpkin"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "country cousin"
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields:",
          "text": "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!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1916 [1896], Henry James, The Figure in the Carpet:",
          "text": "Special commissioners had begun, in the “metropolitan press,” to be the fashion, and the journal in question must have felt it had passed too long for a mere country cousin.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951 September, Sally Iselin, “I Bought a Dress in Paris”, in The Atlantic:",
          "text": "As in Rome, it is considered very country-cousiny to be seen in the same dress more than twice.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 April 22, “Letters: Open Access: Changes in London”, in RAIL, number 903, page 31:",
          "text": "My fellow students, as politely as they could manage, explained to their up-country cousin why none of these things were possible or desirable.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 7, Jim Steer, “CrossCountry: the heart of the nation”, in RAIL, number 965, page 30:",
          "text": "CrossCountry is a poor country cousin of the London-centric set of long-distance services.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An acquaintance from the countryside, who is regarded by city dwellers as being poorly adapted for city life."
      ],
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        [
          "acquaintance",
          "acquaintance"
        ],
        [
          "countryside",
          "countryside"
        ],
        [
          "regarded",
          "regarded"
        ],
        [
          "city dweller",
          "city dweller"
        ],
        [
          "poorly",
          "poorly"
        ],
        [
          "adapted",
          "adapted"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) An acquaintance from the countryside, who is regarded by city dwellers as being poorly adapted for city life."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "country bumpkin"
        }
      ],
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        "informal"
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  "word": "country cousin"
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