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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)
- (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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rustic
English
Alternative forms
- (obsolete) rustick, rusticke, rustique
Etymology
From Latin r?sticus. Doublet of roister.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???st?k/
- Rhymes: -?st?k
Adjective
rustic (comparative more rustic, superlative most rustic)
- Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven
- She had a rustic, woodland air.
- late 1700s — Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves
- The Princely revel may survey
Our rustic dance wi' scorn.
- The Princely revel may survey
- 1818 — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus Ch. I
- With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection.
- 1820 — Washington Irving, Rural Life in England in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
- To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven
- Unfinished or roughly finished.
- Crude, rough.
- Simple; artless; unaffected.
- 1704, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry
- the manners not too polite nor too rustic
- 1704, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry
Derived terms
- rustic moth
- rustic work
- rusticity
Translations
Noun
rustic (plural rustics)
- A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
- 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 226
- The cause of these stampedes was generally undiscoverable; but sometimes, when the birds stayed some time down on the water, the figure of a rustic would at length appear, walking behind a hedge, along a path bounding the little meadow.
- 1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel, Ch IX
- The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.
- 1927-29, Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part V, The Stain of Indigo, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai
- Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.
- 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 226
- A noctuoid moth.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.
Translations
Anagrams
- Citrus, Curtis, Turcis, citrus, rictus
Romanian
Etymology
From French rustique, from Latin rusticus.
Adjective
rustic m or n (feminine singular rustic?, masculine plural rustici, feminine and neuter plural rustice)
- rustic
Declension
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