1. Somebody or something that is particularly small-town, sometimes characteristically small-minded or with a minimal world scope. 2. Somebody or something that relates to typically classic American traditions such as BBQing over a trash can in your backyard or making a tire swing.
Person 1: "My dad owns a family business that I inherit when I graduate from college."
Person 2: "That's so down home!"
"Henry wore overalls to school today and packed grits for lunch. That's, like, really down home."
Playing Washers.
When your entire family eats dinner together every night without fail.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)