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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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