home folk


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Noun1.home folk - folks from your own home town
common people, folk, folks - people in general (often used in the plural); "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"
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The seven hundred inhabitants are all blood-kin to each other, too; they have always been blood-kin to each other for fifteen hundred years; they are simply one large family, and they like the home folks better than they like strangers, hence they persistently stay at home.
Books discussed include The Slow Natives, A Boat Load of Home Folk, Beachmasters, ItAEs Raining in Mango, and Drylands.
They will be joined by the City of Sunderland Youth Jazz Orchestra and Home Folk musicians from the Sunderland Music Project at the bandstand area from 12 noon to 1.30pm.
They need to talk to constituents about it before coming out, they say - an acknowledgement that some of their home folk aren't keen on the speaker.
* Soldiers not only must know how to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, they also are expected to acquire the know-how that will enable them to get along with the home folk in those two troubled lands.
Greetings, trained in Brazil by Pedro Nickel Filho and who chased home Folk in the UAE Guineas, again looks the main threat under Richard Mullen.
Lavished throughout with black and white photos of strange scenic wonders, Midwest Marvels is a type of entertaining curiosity tour featuring a text which is illustrated with photographs and down home folk tales.
Many issues aren't decided on partisan grounds - members put home folk in front of party folk - and a big majority gives the GOP leeway to let some people vote local instead of sticking with the party.
Some of my customers in the US have commented that there were too many cupcakes all over the place and my desserts are just the kind of unique delicacies they needed to taste-the variety I also want my home folk to taste.
June Croessmann arrived here from Peoria for several days' visit with home folks.
gave the home folks the knockout he figured they wanted.