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country-bred
[ kuhn-tree-bred ]
adjective
- raised or bred in the country.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of country-bred1
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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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