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Definition of Folksy
1. Adjective. Characteristic of country life. "The air of homespun country boys"
2. Adjective. Very informal and familiar. "A folksy style"
Definition of Folksy
1. Adjective. Characteristic of simple country life. ¹
2. Adjective. Informal, affable and familiar. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Folksy
1. friendly [adj FOLKSIER, FOLKSIEST] : FOLKSILY [adv] - See also: friendly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Folksy
Literary usage of Folksy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"Poor folksy. Like or after the fashion of poor people. Southern. Poorly. Badly;
ill. Poorly off. Not well off; not rich. Poor White Folks. ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1891 I'm real folksy ; grasshoppers ain't no neighbors to me.— Rose T. Cooke, '
Huckleberries,' p. 331 (Boston). Fool. Foolish. OE, now Sc. and dial., ..."
3. Crossover: Architecture, Urbanism, Technology by Ad Graafland, Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh, George Baird (2006)
"Sailing under the xenophobic flag of the | conservative Heimatschutz
movement (literally 'home protection' movement), g- and drawing on the folksy, ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"His pervasive Americanism—above par, if anything—is no theory,- but wholesome,
folksy and practical. And the reader is left to find out which is the wrong ..."
5. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"Well, Ozy, folks is folksy, ain't they? Come to think on't, there's a tribe over
to Still River they call the Sandy Steeles, all of 'em red-heads. ..."
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