just folks
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.58 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Ordinary, unpretentious people; an ordinary, unpretentious person.
noun
Example Sentences
- ""You still think they come all boxed, sorted, and labeled, do you?" he said. "And that they aren't ‘just folks’ at all?" "Yes, I still think so. They never seem a bit like ‘folks’ to me. It's their business to sit up there stiff and solemn and stern.""
- "He was happy . . . to be going out to a restaurant without having to sign books or talk to students about Whitman and Melville. . . . Idolized Bech loved, at the end of a long day impersonating himself, being just folks."
- ""She has gone from being just folks to being a bit imperial, assuming a bit more of a queenly role," said Ms. Allgor."
- "Even his mussed cravat and cow licked hair had a "just folks" quality."
- "George Bush's attempt at just-folks normalcy was undermined when he turned a blind eye to his chief of staff flying military jets to private appointments."