Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hillbilly
Participle: hillbillied
Gerund: hillbillying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | hillbilly |
| you | hillbilly |
| he;she;it | hillbillies |
| we | hillbilly |
| you | hillbilly |
| they | hillbilly |
Perfect
| I | have hillbillied |
| you | have hillbillied |
| he;she;it | has hillbillied |
| we | have hillbillied |
| you | have hillbillied |
| they | have hillbillied |
Past
| I | hillbillied |
| you | hillbillied |
| he;she;it | hillbillied |
| we | hillbillied |
| you | hillbillied |
| they | hillbillied |
Pluperfect
| I | had hillbillied |
| you | had hillbillied |
| he;she;it | had hillbillied |
| we | had hillbillied |
| you | had hillbillied |
| they | had hillbillied |
Future
| I | will hillbilly |
| you | will hillbilly |
| he;she;it | will hillbilly |
| we | will hillbilly |
| you | will hillbilly |
| they | will hillbilly |
Future Perfect
| I | will have hillbillied |
| you | will have hillbillied |
| he;she;it | will have hillbillied |
| we | will have hillbillied |
| you | will have hillbillied |
| they | will have hillbillied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hillbilly |
| you | hillbilly |
| he;she;it | hillbilly |
| we | hillbilly |
| you | hillbilly |
| they | hillbilly |
Perfect
| I | have hillbillied |
| you | have hillbillied |
| he;she;it | have hillbillied |
| we | have hillbillied |
| you | have hillbillied |
| they | have hillbillied |
Imperfect
| I | hillbillied |
| you | hillbillied |
| he;she;it | hillbillied |
| we | hillbillied |
| you | hillbillied |
| they | hillbillied |
Pluperfect
| I | had hillbillied |
| you | had hillbillied |
| he;she;it | had hillbillied |
| we | had hillbillied |
| you | had hillbillied |
| they | had hillbillied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hillbilly |
| you | would hillbilly |
| he;she;it | would hillbilly |
| we | would hillbilly |
| you | would hillbilly |
| they | would hillbilly |
Perfect
| I | would have hillbillied |
| you | would have hillbillied |
| he;she;it | would have hillbillied |
| we | would have hillbillied |
| you | would have hillbillied |
| they | would have hillbillied |
Imperative
| you | hillbilly |
| we | Let's hillbilly |
| you | hillbilly |
Verbs conjugated like 'hillbilly'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'hillbilly'
dillydally,
hellify,
highball,
hijabify,
hullaballo,
killfile,
misbill,
airball,
belly,
bill,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From hill + billy (“fellow”). Compare Scots chapman billie (“travelling salesman”).
Sample Sentences
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Hillbillying troubadors, the bohemians of a new world, not cafe society but more like the poor white origins of an Elvis Presley. [1991, The Commonwealth Review - Volume 3, page 189:]
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Like Ken Lay, [Rebecca] Mark came from a small town in Missouri, one of four children in a farm family with deep fundamentalist beliefs. Her conversational style has been polished in Texas, and she is a master of “hillbillying,” the trick of playing up one’s humble origins. [2002 April 1, Marie Brenner, “The Enron Wars”, in Vanity Fair:]
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And Kerry doesn’t know how to hillbilly. And it is not a Texas thing, by the way. John F. Kennedy used to hillbilly us. And that meant that he flirted with us. He had a twinkle. Bill Clinton hillbillied us. And Kerry has got to learn how to do that. He has got to dial back and show some relaxed affability. [2004 April 30, Lesley Stahl, “Hardball”, in MSNBC:]
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I think that 20 to 30 years ago nonfundamentalists in America did make a great mistake by typing them, by hillbillying and backwoodsing and holy-rollering them. [2001, The New York Times Biographical Service, Volume 32, page 1540:]
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God damned mother fuckin son of a bitch cock suckin' asshole, who the fuck does he think he is, that dumb ass, half-brained, hillbillied redneck, given me that Jew shit when he's coppin' money and nobody's got the balls to stand up to him and they're gonna let me take the rap? [2006, Laurel Snyder, Half/life: Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes, →ISBN, page 25:]
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The Warner Bros. cartoons, after having hillbillied themselves nearly to death during the 1930s, did not return to the trend during the late 1940s. [2008, Tim Hollis, Ain't That a Knee-Slapper, →ISBN, page 125:]