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Country-bred   /kˈəntri-brɛd/   Listen
Country-bred

adjective
1.
Rough and uncouth.






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"Country-bred" Quotes from Famous Books



... assume, then, that the popular mind—let us say the peasant mind—in the white race is as capable of abstraction as the mind of the higher classes, but not so specialized in this direction—and no one can doubt this in view of the academic record of country-bred boys—the following comparison of our proverbs with those of the Africans of the Guinea coast (the latter reported by the late Sir ...
— Sex and Society • William I. Thomas



Words linked to "Country-bred" :   rural



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