country cousin
country cousin noun: an acquaintance from the countryside, who is regarded by city dwellers as being poorly adapted for city life.
Noun
country cousin (plural country cousins)
- An acquaintance from the countryside, who is regarded by city dwellers as being poorly adapted for city life.
- 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!1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC
- 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.1916 [1896], Henry James, The Figure in the Carpet
- Synonyms:
- bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, culchie, carl, churl, corncob, cornhusker
country cousin meaning in Tamil
country cousin in Tamil
- நாட்டுப்புற வாசி
Examples of country cousin in a sentence
- My fellow students, as politely as they could manage, explained to their up-country cousin why none of these things were possible or desirable.2020 April 22, “Letters: Open Access: Changes in London”, in RAIL, number 903, page 31:
- CrossCountry is a poor country cousin of the London-centric set of long-distance services.2022 September 7, Jim Steer, “CrossCountry: the heart of the nation”, in RAIL, number 965, page 30:
Synonyms of country cousin
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Forms of country cousin
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Questions about country cousin
- What does country cousin mean?
- Country cousin means an acquaintance from the countryside, who is regarded by city dwellers as being poorly adapted for city life.
- What is country cousin in Tamil?
- Country cousin in Tamil is நாட்டுப்புற வாசி. See Country cousin meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use country cousin in a sentence?
- My fellow students, as politely as they could manage, explained to their up-country cousin why none of these things were possible or desirable.
- What part of speech is country cousin?
- Country cousin is a noun.
- What is the plural of country cousin?
- The plural of country cousin is country cousins.
Words near country cousin in the dictionary
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