DCHP-2
backwoods ((n.)) † DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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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.
- 1834 (1926) As I am on the subject of eating, you may wish to know how we lived in the backwoods.