What is the definition on the word Bumpkin?

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What does this word mean?!?

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1. bumpkin

An unsophisticated person. Not very intellegent or interested in culture.

Generally refers to someone living in a rural area.


Bumpkin is a derivative of bum, “the rear end. It may come from either the Middle Dutch word bommekijn, “ a little barrel,” or the Flemish word boomken, “shrub" Such a person may easily have been compared to a block of wood;

That country Bumpkin just sits on his porch and whittles.

2. bumpkin

a hillbilly, someone from a small tiny town

Even though the boy's a bumpkin doesn't mean he's oblivious.


3. Someone from a rural area. Carries connotations of backwardness or narrowmindedness. Syn. clodhopper, hayseed, hick, rube, yokel.

Before the age of mass communications, country bumpkins were often amazed by the technologies the saw in cities.

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Bumpkin Definition

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Yokels, also called bumpkins, are unsophisticated country people. In England yokels are traditionally depicted as wearing the old West Country farmhand's dress of straw hat and white smock, chewing a piece of straw and carrying a pitchfork or rake. The Wurzels cheerfully play on this stereotype in their Scrumpy and Western music. Yokels can also come from other parts of Britain such as Yorkshire or Norfolk. English yokels speak a country dialect from some part of England. [1] Variations can involve the straw hat with baggy trousers or a large untidy weatherproof hat not of straw.

Yokels are also depicted as talking about bucolic topics like cows, sheep, fields, crops and buxom wenches to the exclusion of all else.

The word may derive either from a comic mispronunciation of the word 'local', from a dialect word 'yokel' meaning 'woodpecker' or from the Somerset word 'yogel' meaning 'owl', owls being traditionally seen as stupid in Somerset.

In fiction, such yokels may be depicted as gullible and easily conned. Conversely, they may be viewed as straightforward and simplistic, and therefore seeing through sophisticated pretenses.

The development of television brought many previously isolated communities into mainstream British culture in the 1950s and 1960s. The Internet continues this integration, further eroding the town/country divide. In the 21st century British country folk are less frequently seen as yokels.

In the United States yokel has a similar meaning to Hillbilly or country bumpkin.

Bumpkin (capital “B”) can also be an abbreviate of Bumpasskin (of or relating to Bumpass, Virginia.)

also a person who lives in rural places

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unsophisticated person,not very intellegent or interested in culture. General refers to someone living in a rural area. It derives from bum=rear end. The country bumpkin just sits on his porch and whittles. It could also mean hillbilly. (If you google dictionary,what is a bumpkin? ) you will get more definations.

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To a sophisticated girl like me, the farm worker seemed like a country bumpkin.

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bump·kin

–noun
an awkward, simple rustic; yokel.

People usually say "country bumpkin"... it means someone from the sticks who is unsophisticated and ignorant about the world. I prefer the term "slack-jawed yokel"

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bump·kin1 (bŭmp'kĭn, bŭm'-) pronunciation
n.

An awkward, unsophisticated person; a yokel.

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