DCHP-1 Online

backwoods ((n.)) † 

• n.pl. the bush country or back settlements; regions remote from well-settled, civilized areas.

  See also: back settlement  bush country  outlands  

  • 1834  (1926)  As I am on the subject of eating, you may wish to know how we lived in the backwoods.
  • 1964  The raw shanty lad who came out of the backwoods of Quebec . . . would win a place in the mythology of the last frontier.