Thesaurus:country bumpkin
English edit
Noun edit
Sense: unsophisticated person from the rural area of a particular country edit
Synonyms edit
- boor
- bucolic
- carl
- churl
- country bumpkin
- country cousin
- clodhopper
- dubbo (Australia)
- joskin
- hayseed (US)
- hillbilly (US)
- hick
- hobnail (obsolete)
- hog-rubber (obsolete)
- lob
- rustic
- woolly back (UK)
- yokel
Hyponyms edit
- blowsabella (obsolete)
Hypernyms edit
- bumpkin [⇒ thesaurus]
- idiot [⇒ thesaurus]
- rural dweller [⇒ thesaurus]
Various edit
Further reading edit
- “country bumpkin” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “country bumpkin” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.