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What (who) is country cousin - definition
country cousin
WIKTIONARY REDIRECT
¦ noun an unsophisticated and provincial person.
country cousin
WIKTIONARY REDIRECT
(country cousins)
If you refer to someone as a country cousin, you think that they are unsophisticated because they come from the country.
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Country cousin
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·add. ·- A relative from the country visiting the city and unfamiliar with city manners and sights.
Examples of use of country cousin
1. What they mean, although they are too polite and clever to say it, is that their generation could consign to history the harrumphing Tory grandee and his tweedy country cousin as surely as Tony Blair‘s New Labour did the union barons and Militant tendency 15 years ago.