hillbilly

英语

词源

源自hill +‎ billy (“家伙”)。对比低地苏格兰语 chapman billie (“旅行商人”)。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈhɪlbɪli/

• （美国）音频：

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名词

hillbilly (复数 hillbillies)

1. (常贬义) 土气的，乡巴佬的

   近义词：hick

2. 美国南部，尤其是东南部乡村的白人

衍生词汇

• hillbillyish
• hillbilly music
• hillbilly heroin

参见

• redneck

动词

hillbilly (第三人称单数简单现在时 hillbillies，现在分词 hillbillying，一般过去时及过去分词 hillbillied)

1. 展现自己乡下的出身；散发乡下人的气质
   • 1991, The Commonwealth Review - Volume 3，第 189 页:

     Hillbillying troubadors, the bohemians of a new world, not cafe society but more like the poor white origins of an Elvis Presley.

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   • 2002年4月1日, Marie Brenner, “The Enron Wars”, 出自 Vanity Fair:

     Like Ken Lay, [Rebecca] Mark came from a small town in Missouri, one of four children in a farm family with deep fundamentalist beliefs. Her conversational style has been polished in Texas, and she is a master of “hillbillying,” the trick of playing up one’s humble origins.

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   • 2004年4月30日, Lesley Stahl, “Hardball”, 出自 MSNBC:

     And Kerry doesn’t know how to hillbilly. And it is not a Texas thing, by the way. John F. Kennedy used to hillbilly us. And that meant that he flirted with us. He had a twinkle. Bill Clinton hillbillied us. And Kerry has got to learn how to do that. He has got to dial back and show some relaxed affability.

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2. 将...刻画为乡巴佬；表现为乡巴佬
   • 2001, The New York Times Biographical Service, Volume 32，第 1540 页:

     I think that 20 to 30 years ago nonfundamentalists in America did make a great mistake by typing them, by hillbillying and backwoodsing and holy-rollering them.

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   • 2006, Laurel Snyder, Half/life: Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes, →ISBN，第 25 页:

     God damned mother fuckin son of a bitch cock suckin' asshole, who the fuck does he think he is, that dumb ass, half-brained, hillbillied redneck, given me that Jew shit when he's coppin' money and nobody's got the balls to stand up to him and they're gonna let me take the rap?

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   • 2008, Tim Hollis, Ain't That a Knee-Slapper, →ISBN，第 125 页:

     The Warner Bros. cartoons, after having hillbillied themselves nearly to death during the 1930s, did not return to the trend during the late 1940s.

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