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small-towny en · ADJ

Etymology

From small town + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a small town.
   • [Kelly] Winebarger, a mother of two who cleans homes and offices for a living, said someone called the cops on her, who came out and checked her identification. It’s also THAT kind of small-towny place. 2019 May 9, Bill Torpy, “Where racial purity and growth collide”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, volume 71, number 129, Atlanta, Ga., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B7, column 5:
   • Edna Morn has a very young and small-towny girl part as Angeline and looks it and acts it. 1918 September 24, “[At the Theatres] Academy: “Flo-Flo””, in The Sun, volume CLXIII, number 112, Baltimore, Md.: A[runah] S[hepherdson] Abell Company, →OCLC, page 6, column 6:
   • Whatever the reason for her old-fashioned appearance, certainly the mocking critics who are “making fun” of her dowdy clothes are only proving that their manners are inferior to their raiment. This petty form of rudeness is essentially “small-towny”; in metropolitan centers people dress as they please without attracting undue attention. 1920 August 12, Helen Decle, “What’s What”, in The Everett Daily Herald, Everett, Wash., →OCLC, page 10, columns 1–2:

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