backwoodsman
111teetotal — [19] The adverb teetotally is first recorded in America in 1832 (James Hall, in his Legends of West Philadelphia, recorded a Kentucky backwoodsman as saying ‘These Mingoes … ought to be essentially, and particularly, and tee totally obflisticated …
112Hinterwäldler — Sm std. stil. (19. Jh.) Stammwort. Lehnübertragung von am. e. backwoodsman. Gemeint sind die Bewohner der neuen Ansiedlungen jenseits des Alleghanygebirges . ✎ Gombert, A. ZDW 7 (1905), 146; Röhrich 2 (1992), 721. deutsch s. hinter, s. Wald …
113rowdy — (n.) a rough, quarrelsome person, 1808, Amer.Eng., originally lawless backwoodsman, probably from ROW (Cf. row) (n.2). The adjective is first recorded 1819 …
114rowdy — adjective (rowdier, rowdiest) noisy and disorderly. noun (plural rowdies) a rowdy person. Derivatives rowdily adverb rowdiness noun rowdyism noun Origin C19 (orig. US in the sense lawless bac …
115dialect — noun the island dialect was influenced by the Spanish in the sixteenth century Syn: regional language, local language, local speech, vernacular, patois, idiom; regionalisms, localisms; informal lingo •• dialect, argot, cant, jargon, lingo, slang …
116Canada Company — Founded in London, 1824, by John Gait, as a colonizing scheme. A large tract of land was purchased in what is now western Ontario. Dunlop, Talbot, Strickland, and other pioneers of Upper Canada were associated with Gait in the enterprise. The… …
117homesteader — n settler, colonist, colonial, colonizer; squatter, nester; pioneer, sooner; frontiersman, trail blazer, trailbreaker, pathfinder; backwoodsman, woodsman, backsettler …
118mossback — n Informal. 1. old fogy, square toes, Inf. stick in the mud, Inf. fud or fuddy duddy or old fuddy duddy, Inf. fossil, Inf. antique, Inf. relic, Inf. back number, Inf. dodo. 2. conservative, ultraconservative, diehard, reactionary, old liner, Inf …
119outlander — n 1. foreigner, alien, stranger, unwelcome visitor, intruder, interloper, barbarian, invader, tramontane, ultramontane; visitor, tourist, Inf. visiting fireman; exile, refugee, e migre1, displaced person, D. P.; transmigrant, migrant, sojourner,… …
120pioneer — n 1. frontiersman, backwoodsman, settler, homesteader; pathfinder, trailbreaker, trailblazer, explorer, paver of the way; scout, guide, point; forerunner, antecedent, precursor, predecessor, foregoer; outrider, front or lead runner, vaunt courier …
