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yokel

/yoh-kuhl/US // ˈyoʊ kəl //UK // (ˈjəʊkəl) //

乡巴佬,乡下人

Related Words

rustic伧俗的,伧俗,乡下人,乡村 hayseed干草籽,草籽,干草种子,草料 peasant农夫,农民,农人,农户 boor野蛮人,野猪,野人,野蛮生长 country cousin乡下人,乡下表哥,乡下的表弟,乡下表妹

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Informal
- : an unsophisticated person from a rural area; a country bumpkin.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounperson who is mired in local custom

Synonyms

boor野蛮人,野猪,野人,野蛮生长 hayseed干草籽,草籽,干草种子,草料 peasant农夫,农民,农人,农户 rustic伧俗的,伧俗,乡下人,乡村 backwoods person落伍者,乡下人,乡巴佬,乡贤 country cousin乡下人,乡下表哥,乡下的表弟,乡下表妹 country person乡下人,国人,国家人员,乡村人

Examples

Yet Mike Huckabee, an authentic by-his-bootstraps populist, was dismissed by the party's actual elite as a country yokel.
Hesitatingly, and like a clumsy yokel, I blurted: I have been wondering whether you cared for the performance I gave?
How can she have cared a hang for Ned, if she's ready to go and marry a yokel, for the sake of a home and respectability?
Some yokel writes in the village paper, as Henley had written before, "James's stuff was not worth doing."
The yokel if he feels inclined for a sleep lies down and takes it just as the dumb creatures do.
For among the mud-larks he recognises one who, early in the day, offered insult to himself, calling him a “country yokel.”

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