0 A countrified person or thing belongs to or is suited to the countryside:
I thought of myself as sophisticated compared with my countrified relatives.
disapproving The hotel's decor was tasteless and countrified (= artificially like something seen in the countryside).
There exists a popular usage in which 'dialect' means 'countrified', 'rustic', 'uneducated', 'inferior'.
It adds pedal steel, dobro, fiddle and mandolin to the guitar and bass emphasis of rock and then throws in the blue-eyed soul of countrified gospel piano.
All these are people who need a service in villages and in the country—and the more "countrified" the more they need it.
It was built at a time when the district was more countrified.
In his solo career, short though it was, he has pursued a more countrified aspect of his music.
It is the oldest continuously operational high school in this countrified region, and one of the oldest high schools in the country.
The word assumes the view of such languages being backward, countrified, and unlettered, thus is considered by speakers of those languages as offensive when used by outsiders.
