ozarkian

Etymology

From Ozark + -ian.

adj

  1. Of or from the Ozark region of the United States.“It was an Appalachian phrase, he said, or maybe it was Ozarkian – a saying that emerged from a hardscrabble landscape, a realm of rural poverty that always brought to my mind quilts and bonnets and hand-made brooms.”

noun

  1. An inhabitant of the Ozark region of the United States.“Another Ozarkian who I met after I'd been gone a long time, told me that her oldest son hadn't been accepted into the Army because he "couldn't pass mustard," but was now a "highway petroleum."”