bumpkin

Example Sentences

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Adebimpe exclaimed between bites of mushroom tagliatelle, adopting a bumpkin commentator’s voice.

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2024

“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

Far from a first-degree murder defendant facing life in prison, he looked like a bumpkin who had won a new tractor.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2021

And the bumpkin stood it humbly, blubbering a little and sucking his teeth.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck