Ozarkian

comparative more Ozarkian · superlative most Ozarkian

1. Of or from the Ozark region of the United States.

   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.

   2012, Sarah Menkedick, Vela, Volume 1

plural Ozarkians

1. An inhabitant of the Ozark region of the United States.

   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."

   2000, Mitch Jayne, Home Grown Stories and Home Fried Lies, page 235