Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
north-country
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A warrant for his arrest forced him to flee, committing a trail of burglaries in north-country cities.
Usage examples of "north-country".
The place was a hubbub of chatter in broad, north-country dialects, the clattering of tools and, from afar down at the other end of the room, the huffs of leather bellows and the clanging ring of hammer on anvil.
Behind them a group of swaggering, half-drunken Yorkshire dalesmen, speaking a dialect which their own southland countrymen could scarce comprehend, their jerkins marked with the pelican, which showed that they had come over in the train of the north-country Stapletons.