Ozarkian

English

Etymology

From Ozark +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Ozarkian (comparative more Ozarkian, superlative most Ozarkian)

1. Of or from the Ozark region of the United States.
   • 2012, Sarah Menkedick, Vela, Volume 1:

     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

Ozarkian (plural Ozarkians)

1. An inhabitant of the Ozark region of the United States.
   • 2000, Mitch Jayne, Home Grown Stories and Home Fried Lies, page 235:

     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."