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  • adjective informal Like or indicative of a redneck or rednecks; rural, uneducated, unsophisticated, etc.

Etymologies

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redneck +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • Many of us felt the same way about Bush, but we didn't act tacky and redneckish.

    Curbing medical lawsuits: What Obama really means 2009

  • What's really annoying is the NYT coverage of Wisconsin, which seems to be limited to sex, corruption, and drinking, with a salting of stereotypes from Praire Home Companion, which many actual people in Wisconsin find condescending and redneckish.

    On, Wisconsin! The Sex Prosecution of the Month Tenured Radical 2009

  • As I jump and whoop and leap in a redneckish way across the stage, Jack plays the drums like a wild man.

    The English American Alison Larkin 2008

  • As I jump and whoop and leap in a redneckish way across the stage, Jack plays the drums like a wild man.

    The English American Alison Larkin 2008

  • As I jump and whoop and leap in a redneckish way across the stage, Jack plays the drums like a wild man.

    The English American Alison Larkin 2008

  • As I jump and whoop and leap in a redneckish way across the stage, Jack plays the drums like a wild man.

    The English American Alison Larkin 2008

  • Black sings in the guise of a really crude, really redneckish cowboy.

    Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2010

  • Then people call me a bigot and wonder why i get on here and tell about how ignorant, redneckish and back woods some of the people of Ky are ..

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2010

  • Most people from Texas do NOT have pronounced, redneckish accents!

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2008

  • Move-in day my first year at college and this guy in my suite we called Big Bill (who wasn’t from the deep South but from upper Maryland) finds it necessary to play “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Free Bird” over and over and overto the point where all I could do was grit my teeth, regret the fact that my daddy’s .22 rifle is several hours’ drive away and complain to as many of my fellow dormies about how here we are off at school, finally free of our hometown shackles, being forced to endure that most egregiously redneckish Southern-rock combo, Lynyrd Skynyrd.

    Magnet Magazine Review » Lynyrd Skynyrd Dixie 2006

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