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yokel

noun as in country bumpkin

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Yet Mike Huckabee, an authentic by-his-bootstraps populist, was dismissed by the party's actual elite as a country yokel.

Hesitatingly, and like a clumsy yokel, I blurted: I have been wondering whether you cared for the performance I gave?

How can she have cared a hang for Ned, if she's ready to go and marry a yokel, for the sake of a home and respectability?

Some yokel writes in the village paper, as Henley had written before, "James's stuff was not worth doing."

The yokel if he feels inclined for a sleep lies down and takes it just as the dumb creatures do.

For among the mud-larks he recognises one who, early in the day, offered insult to himself, calling him a “country yokel.”

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to yokel, such as: country bumpkin, boor, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, and peasant.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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