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yokel

English

Etymology

1812, possibly from dialectal German Jokel, diminutive of Jakob; alternatively, from dialectal English yokel (woodpecker).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?j??.k?l/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?jo?.k?l/
  • Rhymes: -??k?l

Noun

yokel (plural yokels)

  1. (derogatory) A person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive.
    Synonyms: boor, bumpkin, country bumpkin, joskin, hillbilly, hick, peasant, provincial, rube, rustic, yahoo
    • 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, London: Richard Bentley, Volume 2, Chapter 30, p. 81,[1]
      [] my opinion at once is [] that this [robbery] wasn’t done by a yokel?eh, Duff?”
      “Certainly not,” replied Duff.
      “And, translating the word yokel, for the benefit of the ladies, I apprehend your meaning to be that this attempt was not made by a countryman?” said Mr. Losberne with a smile.
    • 1895, Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, New York: Appleton, Chapter 8, p. 88,[2]
      He eyed the story-teller with unspeakable wonder. His mouth was agape in yokel fashion.
    • 1985, Peter De Vries, The Prick of Noon, Penguin, Chapter 6, p. 119,[3]
      I went to New York and bought myself a secondhand stretch limousine twenty-eight feet long, calculated to reduce the most blasé country-club sophisticates to bug-eyed yokels.
    • 1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, London: Phoenix, 1994, Chapter 8.6, p. 560,[4]
      ‘You may think that because you live in Brahmpur you have seen the world?or more of the world than we poor yokels see. But some of us yokels have also seen the world?and not just the world of Brahmpur, but of Bombay. []

Derived terms

  • yokelry

Translations

References

Anagrams

  • Kolye, Lokey, koley, kyloe

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ignoramus

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??n???e?m?s/
  • Rhymes: -e?m?s

Etymology 1

After the ignorant lawyer Ignoramus, the titular character in the 1615 play Ignoramus by the English playwright Georges Ruggle; from Latin ign?r?mus (we do not know, we are ignorant of), the first-person plural present active indicative of ign?r? (I do not know, I am unacquainted with, I am ignorant of).

Alternative forms

  • ignoramous

Noun

ignoramus (plural ignoramuses)

  1. A totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool.
Usage notes

The hyper-correct plural form ignorami is seen by most as humorous and non-standard, as the word derives from a Latin verb, not from a noun.

Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:ignoramus
Translations

Etymology 2

Directly from Latin ign?r?mus (we do not know).

Noun

ignoramus (plural ignoramuses)

  1. (law, dated) A grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient to send the case to trial.

Anagrams

  • origanums

Latin

Verb

ign?r?mus

  1. first-person plural present active indicative of ign?r?

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