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n. People who live, or grew up, in the country as opposed to a town or city.
Usage examples of "country folks".
But we country folks will go back a hundred years like the pio.
And all that day, while the train wound through rushing gaps and along ledges where movement was only a laboring sound of the exhaust and groaning wheels and the eternal mountains stood fading into the thick sky, I thought of home, of the bleak station and the mud and the niggers and country folks thronging slowly about the square, with toy monkeys and wagons and candy in sacks and roman candles sticking out, and my insides would move like they used to do in school when the bell rang.
He could tell she'd been raised almost as country as himself, and as a rule country folks got right down to business with their grub so they could get on with any chores that needed tending.
He failed to see any, and he'd spent enough nights with Quill Indians to know they turned in early and rose with the sun, like a lot of country folks save for Mexicans.
Back in the high country folks said I was a right pretty girl, but that cut no figure here.
I believe smart folks say cleaner'n a whistle, and only us country folks say slicker'n a whistle.