Meaning of swampbilly | Babel Free

Definitions

a poor, uneducated person from rural swampland areas

US, informal

Examples

““Some had called them a 'swampbilly' because they lived in shanty houseboats,” he said.”

“She get mad at Daddy 'cause he a swampbilly!”

“She was relieved he hadn't taken the bridge, which stretched for eons across the swamps of Louisiana, and housed little in the way of civvies save for National Guardsmen in training or the occasional jugswilling hillbilly (aka swampbilly).”

“Yet to some extent the "swampbilly" epithet was correct. Cajuns floated around on basic wooden houseboats, inter-married, subsisted on fishing and trapping, spoke their own provincial form of the French language, ...”

“He traveled the back hills and swamplands peddling his utterly worthless “Dr . O . L . Weems Marvelous Metamorphic Magical Medicine” to the hillbillies and swampbillies for a dollar per pint bottle or a dollar six-bits for two.”

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