- 1鄉巴佬（侮辱語，美國用法：住在山區、被看成沒受過教育的窮人。台灣沒有完全對等的詞；千萬不要和「原住民」混在一起）
Hillbilly is an insulting American word for a poor, person who lives in the mountains, especially in parts of the United States such as . Hill is the mountain country; billy here is an old word for a fellow, a person. People also stretch it, still , to mean anyone they think is unsophisticated, old-fashioned, or “from the country.” Some people from those mountain areas have worn the word with pride, in music or in humour — though actually, a should still treat it as offensive. Do not call a person a hillbilly. It is a United States class-and-place stereotype, not a neutral word for someone who lives in the hills, and not a word for indigenous mountain peoples.
組成hill + billy (“fellow,” a person). Compare older Scots billie meaning a fellow.
同家族的字
- hillthe mountain land in the first half of the word
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hillbillynoun/ˈhɪlˌbɪli/
- 1
derogatorySomeone who is from the hills; especially from a rural area, with a connotation of a lack of refinement or sophistication.
- 2
slurA white person from the rural southern part of the United States, especially the Southeastern states.
- Thanks to the massive migration from the poorer regions of Appalachia to places like Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, hillbilly values spread widely along with hillbilly people.
hillbillyverb/ˈhɪlˌbɪli/
- 1
To emphasize one's rural or humble upbringing; to use unsophisticated charm.
- Hillbillying troubadors, the bohemians of a new world, not cafe society but more like the poor white origins of an Elvis Presley.
- Like Ken Lay, [Rebecca] Mark came from a small town in Missouri, one of four children in a farm family with deep fundamentalist beliefs. Her conversational style has been polished in Texas, and she is a master of “hillbillying,” the trick of playing up one’s humble origins.
- 2
To portray or act as an uneducated and unsophisticated fool.
- I think that 20 to 30 years ago nonfundamentalists in America did make a great mistake by typing them, by hillbillying and backwoodsing and holy-rollering them.
- God damned mother fuckin son of a bitch cock suckin' asshole, who the fuck does he think he is, that dumb ass, half-brained, hillbillied redneck, given me that Jew shit when he's coppin' money and nobody's got the balls to stand up to him and they're gonna let me take the rap?
- 3
To perform or experience stereotypically hillbilly-like actions.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。