BUMPKIN

yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon

(noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

bumpkin (plural bumpkins)

A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.

(nautical) A short boom or spar used to extend a sail or secure a stay.

Source: Wiktionary

Bump"kin, n. Etym: [The same word as bumkin, which Cotgrave defines thus: "Bumkin, Fr. chicambault, the luffe-block, a long and thick piece of wood, whereunto the fore-sayle and sprit-sayle are fastened, when a ship goes by the winde." Hence, a clumsy man may easily have been compared to such a block of wood; cf. OD. boomken a little tree. See Boom a pole.]

Definition: An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. "Bashful country bumpkins." W. Irving.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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