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Folksy   /fˈoʊksi/   Listen
Folksy

adjective
1.
Characteristic of country life.  Synonyms: cracker-barrel, homespun.  "Folksy humor" , "The air of homespun country boys"
2.
Very informal and familiar.  "A folksy style"





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"Folksy" Quotes from Famous Books



... she's been away among folks that have got a lot more. All them things together are enough to spoil 'most any girl, but they haven't spoiled her. She's come home here not a mite stuck-up, not flirty nor silly nor top-lofty, but just as sensible and capable and common-folksy as ever she was, and that's sayin' somethin'. If our Rena turns out to be the girl Mary-'Gusta Lathrop is I WILL be proud of her, and don't ...
— Mary-'Gusta • Joseph C. Lincoln
... picturesque, diversified colony of Virginia; or with that to the west, which, thanks in large part to Chicago, is packed with savagery and genius. Indiana, at any rate till very recently, has had an indigenous population, not too daring or nomadic; it has been both prosperous and folksy, the apt home of pastorals, the agreeable habitat of a sentimental folk-poet like Riley, the natural begetter of a canny fabulist like George Ade. It has a tradition of realism in fiction, but that tradition descends from The Hoosier School-Master and it includes ...
— Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) • Carl Van Doren
... the result with great satisfaction. "That begins to look folksy. What's sewed up in that old comforter? A rocking-cheer. Let's ...
— Eyebright - A Story • Susan Coolidge


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