Meaning of BUMPKIN
| Pronunciation: | | 'bumpkin
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| | Definition: | | [n] not very intelligent or interested in culture |
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| | Synonyms: | | chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel |
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| | See Also: | | rustic | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Bump"kin\, n. [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.]
An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout.
``Bashful country bumpkins.'' --W. Irving.
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| | Related Terms: | | boor, bucolic, clod, clodhopper, clown, country bumpkin, farmer, gawk, gawky, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, looby, lout, lubber, lummox, oaf, provincial, rube, rustic, yokel |
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