Thesaurus:bumpkin

Thesaurus

bumpkin

English

Noun

Sense: unsophisticated person

Synonyms

• bogan (Australia)
• boor
• bumpkin
• chawbacon (archaic)
• chuff
• churl
• clenchpoop (obsolete)
• clown (obsolete)
• cornball (US)
• jay (archaic)
• kern (obsolete)
• lamb
• lubber
• lout
• rube
• Tony Lumpkin (dated)
• tyke (UK, dated)
• peasant
• unsophisticate
• yahoo
• yokel

Hyponyms

• barbarian
• country bumpkin    [⇒ thesaurus]
• heathen
• hick
• hillbilly
• ingenue
• joskin
• philistine
• pink
• rustic
• savage

Hypernyms

• person    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• idiot    [⇒ thesaurus]
• idler    [⇒ thesaurus]
• ignoramus    [⇒ thesaurus] (an ignorant person)

Further reading

• “876. commonalty” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “bumpkin” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.