folksy

English

Etymology

From folks +‎ -y or folk +‎ -sy.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊksi

Adjective

folksy (comparative folksier or more folksy, superlative folksiest or most folksy)

1. Characteristic of simple country life.
2. Informal, affable and familiar.
   • 2013 September 30, Dennis Overbye, “Astronaut and a Writer at the Movies”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Mr. Clooney, as a veteran spacewalker, with his resonant voice and folksy yarns, seems to be channeling every imperturbable astronaut you ever heard speaking from on high.

Synonyms

• (affable and familiar): chummy

Derived terms

• folksily
• folksiness

Related terms

• folkish
• folkishness
• folksiness

Translations

characteristic of simple country life

• Finnish: kansanomainen (fi)
• French: rustique (fr), campagnard (fr)
• German: volkstümlich (de)
• Greek: λαϊκότροπος (el) (laïkótropos)
• Russian: простонародный (ru) (prostonarodnyj)

informal: affable and familiar

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 友好 (zh) (yǒuhǎo), 和氣 / 和气 (zh) (héqì)

• Finnish: lupsakka (fi)
• German: gesellig (de), umgänglich (de), locker (de)

See also

• just folks