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country-bred

[ kuhn-tree-bred ]

adjective

  1. raised or bred in the country.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of country-bred1

First recorded in 1660–70

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Example Sentences

But I was young and spirited, and, like most lads that have been country-bred, I had a great opinion of my shrewdness.

Our cities would be fewer and smaller had they fed on nothing but country-bred Americans.

For these reasons the country-bred western youths are more liable to make a success of the work than the city-bred easterner.

Peter was a hard, wiry, brown faced, country-bred lad who looked on the coming war as the schoolboy looks on his holidays.

There was a sound of stumbling feet, and Kim hurried upward through the gloom, swearing like a cat—or a country-bred.

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