backwoodsy

Etymology

backwoods + -y

adj

  1. (US) Typical of something or someone from the backwoods
    Johnson, 45 years old with thinning blond hair, was a strapping, cigar-smoking man from Owensboro, Kentucky, who still spoke in a kind of slow, backwoodsy drawl. March 3, 1989, John A. Jenkins, “High Stakes”, in Chicago Reader
    Bang's rough violin scrapes convey a backwoodsy ruralism, recalling the rootsy fiddle playing of southern prewar black string bands[…]. April 8, 1994, Peter Margasak, “Kahil El'Zabar, Malachi Favors, Billy Bang”, in Chicago Reader

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