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Yokel   /jˈoʊkɛl/   Listen
Yokel

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



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"Yokel" Quotes from Famous Books



... tiny ray of light gleamed through the darkness like a star. A small, almost fragile, figure of a man, dressed in the mud- stained clothes of a country yokel, had turned up the shutter of a small lanthorn. By its flickering light he deciphered the letter which Henri de Montorgueil had ...
— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy

... He has to be, for sometimes he has furrows four miles long and a farm the size of an English county. There is, for instance, a steam-plough which takes twelve fourteen-inch furrows at once! What would an English yokel, meandering along at the tail of his two slow horses, say to that? His little job would be done before it was time for breakfast! Hullo! there is another field, all in stooks already—look across the boundless plain to the ...
— Round the Wonderful World • G. E. Mitton

... you that Moss had called at the police station at Sandwich as we drove through, and that a sergeant and a constable came over to the inn on bicycles about midday. Their questioning me helped them a mighty lot, for I contrived to look as foolish as a yokel when you ask him the way to Nowhere; and all I could tell them was that the lady had come down upon Lord Badington's invitation, and, when she was tired of it, I supposed she would go away again. ...
— The Man Who Drove the Car • Max Pemberton



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