hillbilly
/ˈhɪlˌbɪli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.87 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone who is from the hills; especially from a rural area, with a connotation of a lack of refinement or sophistication.
Derogatory
noun
A white person from the rural southern part of the United States, especially the Southeastern states.
verb
To emphasize one's rural or humble upbringing; to use unsophisticated charm.
verb
To portray or act as an uneducated and unsophisticated fool.
verb
To perform or experience stereotypically hillbilly-like actions.
Example Sentences
- "Thanks to the massive migration from the poorer regions of Appalachia to places like Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, hillbilly values spread widely along with hillbilly people."
- "Hillbillying troubadors, the bohemians of a new world, not cafe society but more like the poor white origins of an Elvis Presley."
- "Like Ken Lay, [Rebecca] Mark came from a small town in Missouri, one of four children in a farm family with deep fundamentalist beliefs. Her conversational style has been polished in Texas, and she is a master of “hillbillying,” the trick of playing up one’s humble origins."
- "And Kerry doesn’t know how to hillbilly. And it is not a Texas thing, by the way. John F. Kennedy used to hillbilly us. And that meant that he flirted with us. He had a twinkle. Bill Clinton hillbillied us. And Kerry has got to learn how to do that. He has got to dial back and show some relaxed affability."
- "I think that 20 to 30 years ago nonfundamentalists in America did make a great mistake by typing them, by hillbillying and backwoodsing and holy-rollering them."
- "God damned mother fuckin son of a bitch cock suckin' asshole, who the fuck does he think he is, that dumb ass, half-brained, hillbillied redneck, given me that Jew shit when he's coppin' money and nobody's got the balls to stand up to him and they're gonna let me take the rap?"