Bumpkin
11bumpkin — Synonyms and related words: boor, bucolic, clod, clodhopper, clown, country bumpkin, farmer, gawk, gawky, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, looby, lout, lubber, lummox, oaf, provincial, rube, rustic, yokel …
12bumpkin — n A clumsy, unsophisticated person from the country. I don t know what she sees in that country bumpkin she goes with. 1680s …
13bumpkin — [[t]bʌ̱mpkɪn[/t]] bumpkins N COUNT (disapproval) If you refer to someone as a bumpkin, you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside. ...unsophisticated country bumpkins. Syn: yokel …
14bumpkin — noun he was very bright, but a bit of a bumpkin Syn: yokel, peasant, provincial, rustic, country cousin, hayseed, hillbilly, hick, rube …
15bumpkin — n rustic, peasant, provincial, country cousin, countryman; yokel, country bumpkin, hawbuck, hobnail, Dial. lumpkin, Often Disparaging. hillbilly, Disparaging. bogtrotter, Inf. chawbacon, Inf. cider squeezer, Sl. hick, Sl. rube, Sl. hayseed, Sl.… …
16Bumpkin Island — Bumpkin Island, also known as Round Island, Bomkin Island, Bumkin Island or Ward s Island, is an island in the Hingham Bay area of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. The island has a permanent size of convert|30|acre|m2, plus an… …
17bumpkin — I. noun Etymology: perhaps from Dutch bommekijn small cask, from Middle Dutch, from bomme cask Date: 1570 an awkward and unsophisticated rustic • bumpkinish adjective • bumpkinly adjective II. noun or bumkin …
18bumpkin — bumpkin1 bumpkinish, bumpkinly, adj. /bump kin/, n. an awkward, simple rustic; yokel. [1560 70; < MD bommekijn little barrel, equiv. to boom BEAM + kijn KIN] Syn. clod, boor, hillbilly, hayseed, rube, hick, yahoo. bumpkin2 /bump kin/, n. Naut. a… …
19bumpkin — noun a) a clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel b) a short boom or spar used to extend a sail or secure a stay …
20bumpkin — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. yokel (See unskillfulness). II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. rustic, yokel, hick*; see boor . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. hick, *hayseed, yokel, rustic, *goat roper, clodhopper, yahoo, *cider squeezer,… …
