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Definition of Chawbacon
1. Noun. A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture.
Generic synonyms: Rustic
Derivative terms: Bumpkinly
Definition of Chawbacon
1. Noun. (archaic) A person who is not intelligent or interested in culture. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chawbacon
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chawbacon
Literary usage of Chawbacon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing Containing Lives of the Most by Henry Downes Miles (1906)
"... polished up from a rough and ready rustic chawbacon by his fourteen years of
incidental town life. Tom's birth dated from 1824, and his pursuits, ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1864)
"If chawbacon shows any inclination to listen, he tells him, in an off-hand ...
Should, however, chawbacon not seem in a hurry to' surrender his liberty, ..."
3. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1871)
"0 Mr. W. Nelson's chawbacon, 3 yrs. 1st. 7lb. (Jeffery) 0 Betting :—55 to 50 on
... chawbacon was stopped some distance from home, having broken down. ..."
4. Briefs and Papers: Sketches of the Bar and the Press by Thomas Wemyss Reid, Charles Russell Russell of Killowen (1872)
"Howler, seeing this, endeavours in re-examination to set Mr. chawbacon on his
legs again by saying to him jocularly, 'Well, ..."
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