What's the difference between backwater and backwoods?
Backwater
Definition:
(n.) Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.
(n.) An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction.
(n.) Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by the paddle wheels of a steamer.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The business department stopped being a sleepy backwater and became a great office of state," he said.
(2) Once considered a backwater of the international drug trade, west Africa was quickly becoming a hub for cocaine smuggling.
(3) Kerala Kayaking offers good-value tours around the backwaters, taking you to try traditional chai and sweet paratha in floating cafes with friendly eagles that sit on your shoulders, and the guides explain the culture of the area.
(4) Though his criticisms of the KGB's unreformed bureaucracy were mild by western standards, they led to his transfer, late in 1956, from operations to the relative backwater of the archives, where he served for the remainder of his career.
(5) It’s been underexposed and underinvested in, and now things are changing.” Women’s sport as a wider prospect has long been something of a commercial backwater.
(6) Howard Webb had described his selection to officiate in this final as the ultimate honour, the culmination of a 17-year journey that had begun in the backwaters of the Northern Counties East League.
(7) When France goes to the polls today to vote in the second round of parliamentary elections, the attention of the political elite, the media and much of the French public will be focused on the Atlantic backwater of La Rochelle.
(8) This is frontier territory where backwater bureaucrats rubber-stamp passing timber shipments and don’t make a fuss.
(9) We have the mainstream, and this is some little backwater.
(10) There is a human detritus swirling around in the backwaters of the welfare state which nobody seems able to do anything about.
(11) Coming from the relative backwaters of rural Wales, it was an eye-opening experience.
(12) Residents of Nkandla – a rural backwater which has an unemployment rate of 47.4% – have already seen some tangible benefits from having the number one citizen in their midst .
(13) Despite its designer boutiques and interior design stores, the village is still very much a backwater.
(14) Simon Spiller "A relaxed seaside town, but less of a sleepy backwater than it used to be: quite a few urban downshifters in their 40s, like us, and culture, including a literary festival.
(15) Then came Gummo (1997), about a prostitute with Down's syndrome and a gang of glue-sniffing, cat-killing teenagers in a Midwest backwater.
(16) Kibuye, once a dilapidated backwater isolated by bad roads, now has a highway to the capital, Kigali, multi-storey banks, offices and a cultural museum.
(17) Designers often talk about rewarding the player for exploration, but usually do so with facile Easter eggs, hidden away in mundane backwaters.
(18) • +34 911 276 085, vinotecamoratin.com Where to drink Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fábrica Maravillas Fábrica Maravillas Madrid has long been a beer backwater, but a couple of years ago a few friends opened Fábrica Maravillas, the inner-city’s first bona fide craft brewpub.
(19) We've headed out of the bustling metropolis of Blade Runner into a backwater, more easily twinned with the scrapyard slums of District 9 than the sleek, centralised hub of a Spielberg-ian future.
(20) Truman Capote's cool, sweet slip of a novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's , is a voyeuristic variation on the theme, in which the narrator can merely guess how Lulamae Barnes, a wild child from a Texas backwater, became the glamorous Holly Golightly; it is a transformation that could only have happened in New York.
Backwoods
Definition:
(n. pl.) The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Let’s just make that choice and - it feels better.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lawrence on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Lawrence, 24, rose to fame following her breakthrough role in backwoods drama Winter’s Bone (2010), for which she received a best actress Oscar nomination.
(2) The 26 bishops will be sending in their men, while rarely seen backwoods Christians and all the other faiths will be there.
(3) His early albums, Palace Music and There Is No One What Will Take Care Of You, sound like they were made in a shed in the backwoods somewhere way down South.
(4) They all came from the backwoods of the province of Skåne, the country's southern tip – in Sweden, "backwoods" is a literal term.
(5) Over 80% of the Black residents of McNary were born in backwoods lumbering towns in the American South.
(6) I wouldn't complain about it, the Boston Red Sox's insane backwoods murderer-style beards make me want to bleach my eye.
(7) As it has moved out of the Tory backwoods into Labour heartlands, Nigel Farage's party has succeeded in tapping into a deep vein of disenfranchisement and anti-establishment anger.
(8) Described as "something they would use in the far northern backwoods" by fan Marcus Rosengren, well-to-do Swedes once considered the use of Snus a bit coarse.
(9) Such rhetoric plays well at home, particularly from a man whose career has been built on an image of the straight-talker from the backwoods, and can be useful globally too.
(10) Sugarcane fields, citrus groves, backwoods – all gone.
(11) Many readers cannot (or will not) distinguish between a book with racist characters and a racist book; the fact that the novel's sympathies are clearly with Huck and Jim, and against all the slave-owners (who are also all the white adults), is outweighed, for these readers, by its casual use of the word "nigger" – even though that was the only word that illiterate backwoods white boys in the 1840s would have used to describe a slave.
(12) As the projected route winds through towns, villages and expanses of countryside, you get a sharp sense of a backwoods rebellion: fields smattered with the red-and-black Stop HS2 logos, and the odd slogan – "It's all about the money David, stupid".
(13) From the first line, the reader is pitched into the deep south: “Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file… anyone watching us from the cotton-house can see Jewel’s frayed and broken straw hat a full head above my own.” Welcome to a brutal, backwoods community of impoverished cotton farmers in 1920s Mississippi.
(14) She's the self-dubbed Backwoods Barbie with a penchant for dropping self-mocking aperçus such as: "If I have one more facelift I'll have a beard!"
(15) The hamlet, founded in 1984, has been the focus of “radical-right conspiracy theories and claims, alleging that it is one of a string of secret jihadist training camps in the backwoods of America”, the civil rights organization the Southern Policy Law Center said.