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say it: FOHK-see
folksy is an adjective meaning "belonging to the common people, especially in regard to speech patterns, attitudes, etc.". It is pronounced /ˈfoʊksi/ — FOHK-see. It carries 2 recorded senses.
belonging to the common people, especially in regard to speech patterns, attitudes, etc.
“folksy humor”
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for folksy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.