yokel
Meanings
Plural: yokels
Noun
- a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
- A person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive.
Origin / Etymology
1812, possibly from dialectal German Jokel, diminutive of Jakob, cf. Yankee (“little John”) and jacquerie (“peasant uprising”). Alternatively, from dialectal English yokel, yuckle (“European green woodpecker”), itself probably a variant of hickwall.
Synonyms
bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bumpkin, bydlo, carl, chawbacon, churl, clodhopper, corncob, cornhusker, country bumpkin, country cousin, culchie, dubbo, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, hob, hobnail, hog-rubber, honyock, hunk, joskin, lob, peasant, promdi, provincial, redneck, rube, rustic, woolly back, yahoo, yokel
Scrabble Score: 12
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