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Ozarkian en · ADJ

Etymology

From Ozark + -ian.

Meanings

1. Of or from the Ozark region of the United States.
   • It was an Appalachian phrase, he said, or maybe it was Ozarkian – a saying that emerged from a hardscrabble landscape, a realm of rural poverty that always brought to my mind quilts and bonnets and hand-made brooms. 2012, Sarah Menkedick, Vela, Volume 1:

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more Ozarkian	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic

Ozarkian en · NOUN

Etymology

From Ozark + -ian.

Meanings

1. An inhabitant of the Ozark region of the United States.
   • Another Ozarkian who I met after I'd been gone a long time, told me that her oldest son hadn't been accepted into the Army because he "couldn't pass mustard," but was now a "highway petroleum." 2000, Mitch Jayne, Home Grown Stories and Home Fried Lies, page 235:

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