yokel

yokel
Synonyms and related words:
Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, babe, backwoodsman, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, boor, boorish, botcher, bounder, bourgeois, bucolic, bumbler, bumpkin, bungler, cad, child, child of nature, churl, churlish, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clodhopping, clodknocker, clot, clown, clownish, countrified, country bumpkin, country-born, country-bred, dolt, dove, dupe, epicier, farmer, farmerish, from the sticks, fumbler, gawk, gawky, gowk, groundling, guttersnipe, hayseed, hick, hicky, hillbilly, hobnailed, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, infant, ingenue, innocent, inurbane, klutz, lamb, looby, lout, loutish, low fellow, lubber, lummox, lumpen, lumpish, mere child, mucker, noble savage, nouveau riche, oaf, ox, parvenu, peasant, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rube, ruffian, rustic, simple soul, slouch, slubberer, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticate, up-country, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yokelish

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  • yokel — (n.) 1812, perhaps from dialectal Ger. Jokel, disparaging name for a farmer, originally dim. of Jakob. Or perhaps from English yokel, dialectal name for woodpecker …   Etymology dictionary

  • yokel — ► NOUN ▪ an unsophisticated country person. ORIGIN perhaps from dialect yokel «green woodpecker» …   English terms dictionary

  • Yokel — Yo kel, n. [Perhaps from an AS. word akin to E. gawk.] A country bumpkin. [Eng.] Dickens. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • yokel — bumpkin, hick, rube, clodhopper, clown, lout, *boor, churl …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • yokel — [n] person who is mired in local custom backwoods person, boor*, country cousin*, country person, hayseed*, peasant, rustic; concept 413 …   New thesaurus

  • yokel — [yō′kəl] n. [prob. < dial., green woodpecker] a person living in a rural area; rustic; country bumpkin: a contemptuous term …   English World dictionary

  • Yokel — Country bumpkin redirects here. For the pony in J. R. R. Tolkien s legendarium, see Bumpkin (Middle earth). For the song by country music singer Cal Smith, see Country Bumpkin (song). Yokel is a derogatory term referring to the stereotype of… …   Wikipedia

  • yokel — UK [ˈjəʊk(ə)l] / US [ˈjoʊk(ə)l] noun [countable] Word forms yokel : singular yokel plural yokels impolite someone who is not very intelligent or who does not know a lot about the world, usually because they come from a small town or village …   English dictionary

  • yokel —    A contemptuous term for a country bumpkin, in use since the beginning of the nineteenth century. It may derive from the connection of a yoke with a ploughman, though yokel was also a dialect word for a kind of woodpecker. The word is not often …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • yokel — noun Etymology: perhaps from English dialect yokel green woodpecker, of imitative origin Date: circa 1812 a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • yokel — yo|kel [ˈjəukəl US ˈjou ] n [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: Perhaps from yokel green woodpecker ] someone who comes from the countryside, seems stupid, and does not know much about modern life, ideas etc used humorously …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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