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Hick   /hɪk/   Listen
Hick

noun
1.
A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture.  Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, rube, yahoo, yokel.





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... Broad rivers, and about fifty miles northwest from Wynnsborough. With the other division of his army Greene left Charlotte on the 20th of the same month (December, 1780), and on the 29th arrived at Hick's Corner on the east side of the Pedee, opposite the Cheraw hills, about seventy miles northeast from Wynnsborough, where he remained some time. He marched to that place in the hope of finding more plentiful subsistence for his troops, but ...
— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing
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... and provide the needful supplies in different localities. Relying upon Gen. Davidson's militia, as a central force and protection, to be called out upon emergencies from the surrounding counties, he led the largest portion of his army under himself, and encamped on Hick's Creek, opposite Cheraw, and about seventy miles to the right of Cornwallis, who was then at Winsboro, South Carolina. While encamped at this place he was joined by the legionary corps of cavalry under Lieutenant-Colonel ...
— Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical • C. L. Hunter
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