down home

Adjective

Meaning

down home (comparative more down home, superlative most down home)

Alternative form of down-home

down-home (comparative more down-home, superlative most down-home)

(chiefly US) Simple and unpretentious, especially having the characteristics of a Southern rural lifestyle.

Alternative names

down-home

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Examples

Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it. Thelonious Monk

Family-style restaurants serving Southern cuisine are common throughout the South, and range from the humble and down-home to the decidedly upscale. Source: Internet

Do you relish folksy down-home singer/songwriters, old timey blues and bluegrass bands, but not the commercial country stuff? Source: Internet

Bragg grew up in the small northeastern Alabama town of Possum Trot, and his front-porch style of storytelling puts just the right down-home twang on a saga that otherwise might seem too farfetched to be true. Source: Internet

Great prices and a down-home tavern ambiance, we fueled ourselves with a hearty portions of stewed beef and lamb, a well-executed moussaka, and a pasta dish that photographed way better than it actually tasted. Source: Internet

Instead, grab a cocktail served in a smoking chemistry lab beaker and enjoy down-home delta blues from the bar's strong line-up. Source: Internet

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