backwoodsman (redirected from backwoodsmen)

back·woods  (bkwdz)

pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)

1. Heavily wooded, uncultivated, thinly settled areas.

2. An area that is far from population centers or that is held to be culturally backward.

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backwoodsman n.

backwoodsy (-wdz) adj.

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backwoodsman [ˈbækˌwʊdzmən]

n pl -men

1. (Sociology) a person from the backwoods

2. US informal an uncouth or rustic person

3. (Law / Parliamentary Procedure) Brit informal a peer who rarely attends the House of Lords

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

backwoodsman - a man who lives on the frontier       frontiersman, mountain man pioneer - one the first colonists or settlers in a new territory; "they went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them"

Translations

backwoodsman [ˈbækwʊdzmən] N (backwoodsmen (pl))

1. (lit) → campesino/a m/f (pej) → patán m

2. (fig) (= reactionary) → reaccionario/a m/f (Brit) (Pol) par que asiste con muy poca frecuencia a las sesiones de la Cámara de los Lores

backwoodsman [ˈbækwʊdzmən] (mainly British) n → militant m de la vieille école