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Meaning of HICK

Pronunciation:  hik

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  not very intelligent or interested in culture
  2. [adj]  awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"
  3. [adj]  (informal) rural and uncouth; "hick ideas"
 
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 Synonyms: bumpkin, bumpkinly, chawbacon, hayseed, provincial, rube, rural, rustic, unsophisticated, yahoo, yokel
 
 See Also: rustic

 

 

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 Related Terms: babe, boor, boorish, bucolic, bumpkin, butterfingers, child, child of nature, churlish, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clodhopping, clown, clownish, clumsy, countrified, country bumpkin, country-born, country-bred, dove, dub, duffer, dupe, farmer, farmerish, foozler, foul-up, from the sticks, fumble-fist, gawk, gawky, goof, goofball, goofer, hayseed, hicky, hillbilly, hobnailed, infant, ingenue, innocent, inurbane, lamb, looby, lout, loutish, lubber, lummox, lump, lumpen, lumpish, mere child, muff, muffer, noble savage, oaf, provincial, rube, rustic, simple soul, slob, stumblebum, stumblebunny, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticate, up-country, whistle-stop, yokel, yokelish
 

 

 

 

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