YOKEL - 8 definitions found
yokel n 1: a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon] yokel kyloe Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) yokel noun Etymology: perhaps from English dialect yokel green woodpecker, of imitative origin Date: circa 1812 a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary yokel (yokels) If you refer to someone as a yokel, you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside. = bumpkin N-COUNT [disapproval] English Explanatory Dictionary yokel ˈjəukəl n. a rustic; a country bumpkin. [perh. f. dial. yokel green woodpecker] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Yokel \Yo"kel\, n. [Perhaps from an AS. word akin to E. gawk.] A country bumpkin. [Eng.] --Dickens. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 97 Moby Thesaurus words for "yokel": Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, babe, backwoodsman, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, boor, boorish, botcher, bounder, bourgeois, bucolic, bumbler, bumpkin, bungler, cad, child, child of nature, churl, churlish, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clodhopping, clodknocker, clot, clown, clownish, countrified, country bumpkin, country-born, country-bred, dolt, dove, dupe, epicier, farmer, farmerish, from the sticks, fumbler, gawk, gawky, gowk, groundling, guttersnipe, hayseed, hick, hicky, hillbilly, hobnailed, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, infant, ingenue, innocent, inurbane, klutz, lamb, looby, lout, loutish, low fellow, lubber, lummox, lumpen, lumpish, mere child, mucker, noble savage, nouveau riche, oaf, ox, parvenu, peasant, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rube, ruffian, rustic, simple soul, slouch, slubberer, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticate, up-country, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yokelish |
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