rube
English
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editEtymology
editGeneric use of the name Rube.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editrube (plural rubes)
- (US, Canada, informal) A person of rural heritage; a yokel.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:country bumpkin
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 8, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
- "Same time," said Babbitt, "no sense excusing these rube burgs too easy. Fellow's own fault if he doesn't show the initiative to up and beat it to the city, like we done—did. […] "
- 1991, Ted Tally, The Silence of the Lambs (motion picture), spoken by Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins):
- You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste.
- (derogatory) An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editperson of rural heritage; a yokel
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pejorative: uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person
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editCzech
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editrube
Etymology 2
editVerb
editrube
- third-person singular present indicative of rubat
- Synonym: rubá
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editGalician
editVerb
editrube
- inflection of rubir:
Latin
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editrube
Middle English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editrube
- Alternative form of ruby
Etymology 2
editVerb
editrube
- Alternative form of rubben
Ternate
editEtymology 1
editPronunciation
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editrube
Etymology 2
editPronunciation
editNoun
editrube
References
edit- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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