cracker-barrel
cracker-barrel adjective: folksy; characteristic of simple small-town people.
Adjective
cracker-barrel (comparative more cracker-barrel, superlative most cracker-barrel)
- Folksy; characteristic of simple small-town people.
- Robert Frost was a nice old New England guy with a lot of cracker-barrel wisdom that the government, somehow or other, saw fit to honor because he read a poem, or something, at the Kennedy inaugural.2004, James Dickey, Donald J. Greiner, Classes on Modern Poets and the Art of Poetry, page 123
- One can love these moments, can cherish their invocation of the American sublime (though Wright's notion of the sublime seems closer to the lurid paintings of Bierstadt than to Whitman), and yet dislike the cracker-barrel philosophizing in which they're embedded.2009, William Logan, Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue, page 266
Synonyms of cracker-barrel
Forms of cracker-barrel
| comparative | more cracker-barrel |
|---|---|
| superlative | most cracker-barrel |
| alternative form | crackerbarrel |
| alternative form | cracker barrel |
Origin of cracker-barrel
Attributive form of cracker barrel. From the image of a group of locals sitting around the cracker barrel in a general store talking together.
Questions about cracker-barrel
- What does cracker-barrel mean?
- Cracker-barrel means folksy; characteristic of simple small-town people.
- What part of speech is cracker-barrel?
- Cracker-barrel is an adjective.
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