country-bred

[ kuhn-tree-bred ]

adjective

1. raised or bred in the country.

Word History and Origins

Origin of country-bred¹

First recorded in 1660–70

Example Sentences

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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Our cities would be fewer and smaller had they fed on nothing but country-bred Americans.

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For these reasons the country-bred western youths are more liable to make a success of the work than the city-bred easterner.

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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.

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There was a sound of stumbling feet, and Kim hurried upward through the gloom, swearing like a cat—or a country-bred.

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