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bumpkin

[buhmp-kin] / ˈbʌmp kɪn /


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“Shanghai was the place to be. It had the best restaurants, the best nightclubs, the coolest people. I felt like such a country bumpkin, but I learned fast.”

From BBC Aug. 15, 2024

So a school that I had never visited, Harvard, took an enormous risk and accepted me, and I became a token country bumpkin to round out a class of polished overachievers.

From Seattle Times Jul. 28, 2023

Lasso is initially portrayed as a naïve bumpkin with little understanding of the sport, his team or the country he’s living in.

From New York Times Jun. 3, 2023

Memphis, a guitar-strumming gentle giant with a country bumpkin way — touchingly incarnated by Sheldon D. Brown — is the main target of Waters’ irrational ire.

From Los Angeles Times May 26, 2023

“But I’m a country bumpkin and this is my first city party so you have to forgive me.”

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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