yokel
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John Noakes called her awful: "She was a bully who treated me like some country yokel from Yorkshire. I couldn't abide her."
From BBC • Aug. 11, 2025
“People see these as fundamentally silly and unserious beliefs and worldviews. They see a Q believer as a yokel or uninformed idiot.”
From Slate • Feb. 12, 2024
"Ted Lasso" was introduced as a the story of a out-of-place Kansas yokel in Britain, with Jason Sudeikis playing Ted as the kind of man aware of the assumptions people will make about him.
From Salon • Aug. 7, 2021
In it, Mr. Stanley, as a city slicker lost in the country, questions and gets smart answers from Carter, portraying a wisecracking local yokel:
From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2016
I wasn’t even sure what a yokel was, but I tried blending in anyway.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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"The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner's Prologue
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The Odyssey
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