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Folksy   /fˈoʊksi/   Listen
Folksy

adjective
1.
Characteristic of country life.  Synonyms: cracker-barrel, homespun.  "Folksy humor" , "The air of homespun country boys"
2.
Very informal and familiar.  "A folksy style"





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"Folksy" Quotes from Famous Books



... she's been away among folks that have got a lot more. All them things together are enough to spoil 'most any girl, but they haven't spoiled her. She's come home here not a mite stuck-up, not flirty nor silly nor top-lofty, but just as sensible and capable and common-folksy as ever she was, and that's sayin' somethin'. If our Rena turns out to be the girl Mary-'Gusta Lathrop is I WILL be proud of her, and don't ...
— Mary-'Gusta • Joseph C. Lincoln


Words linked to "Folksy" :   folks, rural, informal


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