COUNTRY-BRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does country-bred mean? 

• COUNTRY-BRED (adjective)
  The adjective COUNTRY-BRED has 1 sense:

1. rough and uncouth

  Familiarity information: COUNTRY-BRED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COUNTRY-BRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rough and uncouth

Context example:

a country boy

Similar:

rural (living in or characteristic of farming or country life)

 Context examples 

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

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And the very name of play-actress had filled us both with a kind of vague horror, like the country-bred folk that we were.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had the idea, which a country-bred lad brings up with him, that London was merely a wilderness of houses, but I was astonished now to see the green slopes and the lovely spring trees showing between.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)