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| Main Entry: |
bumpkin
 [buhmp-kin] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unsophisticated person |
| Synonyms: | boor, clod, clodhopper, clodpoll, country, hayseed, hick, hind, lout, lummox, oaf, rube, yahoo, yokel |
| Antonyms: | sophisticate |
| Main Entry: | hick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rustic |
| Synonyms: | backwoodsman/woman, boor, bumpkin, clodhopper, cornfed, country boy/girl, country cousin, countryman/woman, farmer, hayseed, hillbilly, local yokel, redneck, rube, rural, yokel |
| Main Entry: | hillbilly |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hayseed |
| Synonyms: | backwoodsman/woman, boor, bumpkin, clodhopper, country boy/girl, country bumpkin, country cousin, hick, rube, rustic, yokel |
Example Sentences
- Press, a redheaded country bumpkin who lives above a pub.
- Sure, he played the bumpkin bewildered in the big city.
- Despite his religious learning he came off as a sort of country bumpkin.
| Main Entry: | lout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boor |
| Synonyms: | barbarian, bear, boob*, brute, buffoon, bumpkin, cad, churl, clod, clodhopper, dolt, dork, goon, lummox, oaf, philistine, rube, slob, vulgarian |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lummox |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | oaf |
| Synonyms: | beast, blunderer, boor, bruiser, brute, bumpkin, chump, clod, clodhopper, clown, dolt, dumb ox, dunce, fool, goon, half-wit, hayseed, idiot, imbecile, klutz, loser, lout*, lunkhead, moron, nincompoop, ox, sap*, simpleton*, yokel |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | peasant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farmer |
| Synonyms: | boor, bumpkin, countryman/woman, cropper, farmhand, hayseed, hick, hired hand, laborer, peon, planter, provincial, rube, rustic, serf, sharecropper, villein |
| Main Entry: | redneck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hick |
| Synonyms: | backwoodsman/woman, boor, bumpkin, clodhopper, cornfed, country boy/girl, country cousin, countryman/woman, farmer, good old boy, hayseed, hillbilly, local yokel, rube, rural, rustic, yokel |
| Main Entry: | clodhopper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lummox |
| Synonyms: | boor, boot, bumpkin, clown, hick, hind, lout, oaf, plowman, redneck, rustic, shoe, yokel |
| Main Entry: | rube |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | redneck |
| Synonyms: | boor, bumpkin, clodhopper, dolt, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, jake, yokel |
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