country cousin
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An acquaintance from the countryside, who is regarded by city dwellers as being poorly adapted for city life.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "And how like a country cousin, to come down upon a poor body in this way, without so much as a day’s notice, or asking whether she would be welcome!"
- "Special commissioners had begun, in the “metropolitan press,” to be the fashion, and the journal in question must have felt it had passed too long for a mere country cousin."
- "As in Rome, it is considered very country-cousiny to be seen in the same dress more than twice."
- "My fellow students, as politely as they could manage, explained to their up-country cousin why none of these things were possible or desirable."
- "CrossCountry is a poor country cousin of the London-centric set of long-distance services."