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down-home

[ doun-hohm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of, relating to, or exhibiting the simple, familiar, or folksy qualities associated with one's family or with rural areas, especially of the southern U.S.:
down-home cooking; down-home hospitality.

down-home

slang.
of, relating to, or reminiscent of rural life, esp in the southern US; unsophisticated

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An Americanism dating back to 1820–30

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Customers became friends and the down-home feeling created lingered long after they left the store.

He stayed with it until it redefined him: switched the label from sophisticated Blues to a down-home sound.

And, you know, Sarah Palin of course was very straight talking, very down home, and had tremendous appeal because of that.

But this is Reese Witherspoon: down-home, girl-next-door, put-together, and, frankly, boring Reese Witherspoon.

In the other: the engaging, uncompromising, down-home, self-made 50-year-old Tea Party favorite Schweikert.

Aminta nodded and smiled, and Selina kissed her hand in joy, saying, that down home she would not be so shy of calling her Aminta.

Down home, continued Billy, we always kill a chicken when we expect a minister.

I brought them down home, and nursed him for three months, till he died.

He wore a grey coat and a high-buttoned vest, with a broad turned-down home-spun collar.

He was half afraid of the chorus girls, because they seemed such different beings from the nurse girls down home.

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