Nearby Words
yokel
[yoh-kuhl] 
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yokel
[yoh-kuhl]
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| 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: | 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: | hick |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rustic |
| Synonyms: | backwoodsman/woman, boor, bumpkin, clodhopper, cornfed, country boy/girl, country cousin, countryman/woman, farmer, hayseed, hillbilly, local yokel, redneck, rube, rural, yokel |
| 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: | lummox |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | oaf |
| Synonyms: | beast, blunderer, boor, bruiser, brute, bumpkin, chump, clod, clodhopper, clown, dolt, dumb ox, dunce, fool, goon, half-wit, hayseed, idiot, imbecile, klutz, loser, lout*, lunkhead, moron, nincompoop, ox, sap*, simpleton*, yokel |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | rustic |
| 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: | country bumpkin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unsophisticated person |
| Synonyms: | clodhopper, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, rube, yokel |
| Main Entry: | bumpkin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unsophisticated person |
| Synonyms: | boor, clod, clodhopper, clodpoll, country, hayseed, hick, hind, lout, lummox, oaf, rube, yahoo, yokel |
| Antonyms: | sophisticate |
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