cracker-barrel

crack·er–bar·rel

adj \-ˌba-rəl\

Definition of CRACKER-BARREL

: suggestive of the friendly homespun character of a country store <a cracker–barrel philosopher>

Origin of CRACKER-BARREL

from the cracker barrel in country stores around which customers lounged for informal conversation

First Known Use: 1916

Related to CRACKER-BARREL

Synonyms: down-home, folksy, homespun

Related Words: modest, unassuming, unpretentious; colloquial, conversational, informal; casual, familiar, fireside, intimate

Near Antonyms: affected, grandiose, highfalutin (also hifalutin), ostentatious, pompous, pretentious

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