What is "backwoods"

Usage examples of "backwoods".

John Backus, I guessed, from his clothes and his looks, that he was a grazier or farmer from the backwoods of some western State-- doubtless Ohio--and afterward when he dropped into his personal history and I discovered that he WAS a cattle-raiser from interior Ohio, I was so pleased with my own penetration that I warmed toward him for verifying my instinct.

California, but I never expected to find it here in the backwoods of North Carolina.

Swanee almost swallowed his whole like a man who was accustomed to big backwoods meals.

Huck Finn is himself the narrator, and he is made to speak as an uneducated backwoods boy would speak--if he happened to be a literary genius.

In close quarters he suffered their backwoods lubricity and knucklehead talk.

His expensive suit spoke persuasive volumes, all its accents calculated by the advertising agency of Blankley and Bane, who had groomed the backwoods preacher into the very model of a serpent-tongued snake-oil salesman.

The Keeper of the Light A LOVER OF MUSIC I He entered the backwoods village of Bytown literally on the wings of the wind.

Phaid could imagine how someone straight out of the hills and backwoods could view the dancefloor as a vision direct from hell.

After some tinny clicking and a sharp squeal that made her shiver with discomfort, a nasal recording, in the heavy accent of some backwoods planet, began to drone.

When UET took him into space training he was ridiculed and punished for talking like a backwoodser.

He knew the area beneath him crawled with insects: wire worms in the roots of savannahs, grubs digging in the moist black earth, hopping beetles, dart-like angita wasps, chalcis flies sacred to the still thriving backwoods Xango cult, chiggers, sphecidae, braconidae, fierce hornets, white termites, hemipteric crawlers, blood roaches, thrips, ants, lice, mosquitoes, mites, moths, exotic butterflies, mantidae—and countless unnatural mutations of them all.

He knew the area beneath him crawled with insects: wire worms in the roots of savannahs, grubs digging in the moist black earth, hopping beetles, dart-like angita wasps, chalcis flies sacred to the still thriving backwoods Xango cult, chiggers, sphecidae, braconidae, fierce hornets, white termites, hemipteric crawlers, blood roaches, thrips, ants, lice, mosquitoes, mites, moths, exotic butterflies, mantidae -- and countless unnatural mutations of them all.

He knew the area beneath him crawled with insects: wire worms in the roots of savannahs, grubs digging in the moist black earth, hopping beetles, dart-like angita wasps, chalcis flies sacred to the still thriving backwoods Xango cult, chiggers, sphecidae, braconidae, fierce hornets, white termites, hemipteric crawlers, blood roaches, thrips, ants, lice, mosquitoes, mites, moths, exotic butterflies, mantidae - and countless unnatural mutations of them all.

I stayed in the cheapest, where one electric bulb hung from a string in the middle of the room, where the sheets were like cheesecloth, and where the mattresses -- when they were revealed as they usually were after a night's restless sleep -- were like maps of strange worlds, the continents being defined by unpleasing stains, doubtless traceable to the incontinent dreams of travelling salesmen, or the rapturous deflowerings of brides from the backwoods.

Though MT later discounted it as a "villainous backwoods sketch," it already adumbrates motifs that would stick with him throughout his career -- including the use of a vernacular speaker and the unexplained appearance of a mysterious stranger.