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| Main Entry: |
rustic
[ruhs-tik]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person from the country, with little experience |
| Synonyms: | backwoodsperson, boor, country cousin, countryperson, farmer, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, mountaineer, peasant, provincial, redneck, rural, yokel |
| Antonyms: | city boy |
| Main Entry: | clown |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stupid, ignorant person |
| Synonyms: | blockhead, boor, bucolic, buffoon, bumpkin, chuff, churl, clodhopper, gawk, hayseed, hick, hind, jake, lout, mucker, oaf, peasant, rube, rustic, swain, yahoo, yokel |
| Main Entry: | hayseed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bumpkin, yokel |
| Synonyms: | backwoodsman/woman, boor, clodhopper, country boy/girl, country bumpkin, country cousin, hick, hillbilly, rustic |
| 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 |
| 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: | yokel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is mired in local custom |
| Synonyms: | backwoods person, boor, country cousin, country person, hayseed, peasant, rustic |
| Main Entry: | country gentleman |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | landowner |
| Synonyms: | cottager, provincial, ruralist, rustic, squire |
| Main Entry: | clodhopper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lummox |
| Synonyms: | boor, boot, bumpkin, clown, hick, hind, lout, oaf, plowman, redneck, rustic, shoe, yokel |
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