home folk

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   folks from your own home town

   Broaderfolk

Questions about home folk

What does home folk mean?

home folk means "folks from your own home town".

Is home folk a common word?

home folk is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.