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Definition of "hill-folk" [hill-folk]

  • Persons living in the hills; hillmen.
  • In Scand. myth., a class of beings intermediate between elves and men, inhabiting caves and hills.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "hill-folk" in a sentence
  • "These daughters of hill-folk with bad skin, anchor babies from Russellville chicken plants, and disabled vets like me -- WE ARE THE PROLETARIAT."
  • "Since, as far as big-city comic book writers know, Pennsylvania is crawling with inbred hill-folk, it only stands to reason that Spider-man's one recorded visit to the state would lead him head first into the buck-toothed, in-bred-ed-est hillbilly clan possible."
  • "Glen, nor dargle, nor mountain, nor cave, could hide the puir hill-folk when Redgauntlet was out with bugle and bloodhound after them, as if they had been sae mony deer."