backwood
pronunciation
How to pronounce backwood in British English:
UK ['bækwʊd]
How to pronounce backwood in American English:
US ['bækwʊd]
Word Origin
- backwood (n.)
- 1709, American English, from back (adj.) + wood (n.) "forested tract." Also backwoods. As an adjective, from 1784. BACKWOODSMEN ... This word is commonly used as a term of reproach (and that, only in a familiar style,) to designate those people, who, being at a distance from the sea and entirely agricultural, are considered as either hostile or indifferent to the interests of the commercial states. [John Pickering, "A Vocabulary, or Collection of Words and Phrases Which Have Been Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States of America," Boston, 1816]