BUMPKIN - 9 definitions found
bumpkin n 1: a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) bumpkin I. noun Etymology: perhaps from Dutch bommekijn small cask, from Middle Dutch, from bomme cask Date: 1570 an awkward and unsophisticated rustic • bumpkinish adjective • bumpkinly adjective II. noun or bumkin Etymology: probably from Dutch boomken, diminutive of boom tree Date: circa 1632 a spar projecting from a ship especially at the stern Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary bumpkin (bumpkins) If you refer to someone as a bumpkin, you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside. ...unsophisticated country bumpkins. = yokel N-COUNT [disapproval] English Explanatory Dictionary bumpkin ˈbʌmpkɪn n. a rustic or socially inept person. [perh. Du. boomken little tree or MDu. bommekijn little barrel] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Bumpkin \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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms bumpkin n. Rustic, peasant, clodpoll, clown, boor, hind, lout, lubber, swain, ploughman, country-fellow, chaw-bacon ( Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 21 Moby Thesaurus words for "bumpkin": 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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