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small-towny

small-towny adjective: resembling or characteristic of a small town.

Adjective

small-towny (comparative more small-towny, superlative most small-towny)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a small town.
    • Edna Morn has a very young and small-towny girl part as Angeline and looks it and acts it.1918 September 24, “[At the Theatres] Academy: “Flo-Flo””, in The Sun, volume CLXIII, number 112, Baltimore, Md.: A[runah] S[hepherdson] Abell Company, →OCLC, page 6, column 6
    • Whatever the reason for her old-fashioned appearance, certainly the mocking critics who are “making fun” of her dowdy clothes are only proving that their manners are inferior to their raiment. This petty form of rudeness is essentially “small-towny”; in metropolitan centers people dress as they...1920 August 12, Helen Decle, “What’s What”, in The Everett Daily Herald, Everett, Wash., →OCLC, page 10, columns 1–2

Examples of small-towny in a sentence

  • This petty form of rudeness is essentially “small-towny”; in metropolitan centers people dress as they please without attracting undue attention.1920 August 12, Helen Decle, “What’s What”, in The Everett Daily Herald, Everett, Wash., →OCLC, page 10, columns 1–2:
  • It’s also THAT kind of small-towny place.2019 May 9, Bill Torpy, “Where racial purity and growth collide”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, volume 71, number 129, Atlanta, Ga....

Forms of small-towny

comparativemore small-towny
superlativemost small-towny

Origin of small-towny

From small town + -y.

Questions about small-towny

What does small-towny mean?
Small-towny means resembling or characteristic of a small town.
How do you use small-towny in a sentence?
This petty form of rudeness is essentially “small-towny”; in metropolitan centers people dress as they please without attracting undue attention.
What part of speech is small-towny?
Small-towny is an adjective.

Words near small-towny in the dictionary

  1. small-towners
  2. small-townie
  3. small-townies
  4. small-townish
  5. small-townism
  6. small-towny
  7. small-world network
  8. small-world networks
  9. small-world phenomena
  10. small-world phenomenon
  11. small-worldness

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