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country-bred

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Adj.1.country-bred - rough and uncouth; "a country boy"
rural - living in or characteristic of farming or country life; "rural people"; "large rural households"; "unpaved rural roads"; "an economy that is basically rural"
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country-bred [ˌkʌntrɪˈbred] ADJ → criado en el campo
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But I was young and spirited, and like most lads that have been country-bred, I had a great opinion of my shrewdness.
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Peter was a hard, wiry, brown faced, country-bred lad who looked on the coming war as the schoolboy looks on his holidays This day, however, he had been sombre and mute, with scarce a word a mile to bestow upon his comrade.
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