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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