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Country cousin. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Country cousin A cousin or relative from the country, to whom the sights and life of the town are novel; one whose ‘countrified’ manners and ways are apt to embarrass town relatives.

1 1770.  Foote, Lame Lover, II. 41. Not to be pester’d at table with the odious company of clients, and country cousins.

2 1806–7.  J. Beresford, Miseries Hum. Life (1825), VII. lxviii. 159. Escorting two or three coaches full of country-cousins, on their first importation into London.

3 1887.  T. A. Trollope, What I remember, I. ii. 31. One of the sights of London for country cousins was to see the mails starting at 8 P.M. from the Post Office.

4   Hence Country-cousin v., to treat as a country-cousin; Country-cousinship, a relationship felt as awkward or embarrassing.

5 1870.  Miss Broughton, Red as Rose, I. 139. If they are fine, and inclined to ‘country cousin’ me.

6 1870.  Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. I. (1873), 21, note. The brain is often forced to acknowledge the inconvenient country-cousinship of the stomach. Ibid., 364. Theory is too fine a dame to confess even a country-cousinship with coarse-handed Practice.

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