folksy.html - adj.
(folksier, folksiest)
1 friendly, sociable, informal.
2 a having the characteristics of folk art, culture, etc. b ostensibly or artificially folkish.

folksiness n.

folksy.html - adj.
(folksier, folksiest)
1 friendly, sociable, informal.
2 a having the characteristics of folk art, culture, etc. b ostensibly or artificially folkish.

folksiness n.

folksy.html - See: WEE FOLK.

folksy.html - n.
(pl. folk or folks)
1 (treated as pl.) people in general or of a specified class (few folk about; townsfolk).
2 (in pl.) (usu. folks) one's parents or relatives.
3 (treated as sing.) a people.
4 (treated as sing.) colloq. traditional music.
5 (attrib.) of popular origin; traditional (folk art).

folk-dance 1 a dance of popular origin.
2 the music for such a dance. folk etymology a popular modifying of the form of a word or phrase to make it seem to be derived from a more familiar word (e.g. forlorn hope). folk memory recollection of the past persisting among a people. folk-singer a singer of folk-songs. folk-song a song of popular or traditional origin or style. folk-tale a popular or traditional story. folk-ways the traditional behaviour of a people. [OE folc f. Gmc]

folksy.html - adj.
of the common people; traditional, unsophisticated.

folksy.html - n.
the traditional beliefs and stories of a people; the study of these.

folkloric adj. folklorist n. folkloristic adj.