hick in English

noun

1

a person who lives in the country, regarded as being unintelligent or provincial.

wondering what a hick from the sticks was doing there

synonyms: bumpkin, country bumpkin, yokel, rustic, country dweller, peasant, provincial, country cousin, hillbilly, hayseed, rube, apple knocker

adjective

rural, rustic, backwater, backwoods, outlying, jerkwater
small-town, unsophisticated, rural, narrow-minded, small-minded, parochial, bush-league, country-fried
rustic, unsophisticated

noun

bumpkin, hayseed
bumpkin, country bumpkin, yokel, rustic, country dweller, peasant, provincial, country cousin, hillbilly, hayseed, rube, apple knocker
hayseed, yokel, bumpkin, rube, chawbacon, yahoo

Use "hick" in a sentence

1. Watch who you callin'a hick!

2. Makes you sound like such a hick.

3. 44 synonyms for Boorish: loutish, gross, crude, rude, hick, coarse, vulgar, rustic, barbaric, churlish

4. Fantastic addition to the Hick-Lit genre Bearskins blew my expectations out of the water

5. Synonyms for Churl include bumpkin, chawbacon, clodhopper, cornball, countryman, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, provincial and rube

6. Synonyms for Bumpkin include hick, yokel, hillbilly, peasant, boor, countrywoman, lout, oaf, rube and rustic

7. Synonyms for Backwoodsman include hick, yokel, rustic, hillbilly, bumpkin, hayseed, rube, provincial, countryman and clodhopper

8. Synonyms for Clodhopper include bumpkin, chawbacon, churl, cornball, countryman, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, provincial and rube

9. The Broomcorn got its start with the hick junker gangs at the edge of Novo Solo’s farm sectors

10. First I'm Oska's errand man from some hick town, and now you have me working at a taxi company?

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12. One of these is a metallic snort or an echoing "hick", that can be heard up to 1.5 km (1 mi) away.

13. Hick, age 49, of Cheshire, passed away peacefully at home with his loving family by his side after a four-year courageous battle with cancer

14. Murray Abraham about that ignernt hick Buttermonger Paula Deen, but I dread facing my relatives to whom this whole incident freakin’ endears her even more to them

15. The Agilities Score System was developed based on the requirements set forth by the US Department of Homeland Security and the triage article by Hick and O’Laughlin (2006) to use in the event of a pandemic, mass casualty event, or other catastrophic disaster

16. Hick and Knitter point to the example of Christianity, where uniqueness "has come to signify the unique definitiveness, Absoluteness, normativeness, superiority of Christianity in comparison with other religions of the world." (11) It is this sense of uniqueness, the sense of being superior, that needs to be rooted out.

17. As I was saying above, a lot of what's derided as "hick" speech is actually the educated speech of a previous era, remnants from when the mainstream speech "degraded" (you can read Bewailment of how popular speech is "going downhill" all the way back to the Roman era!)

18. Cooter was the affable but hopelessly stupid and uncouth auto mechanic on the popular 1980's television show "The Dukes of Hazard." Whereas calling someone a "hick" or a "redneck" carries an undertone of disdain and disparagement, " Cooter " is a more lighthearted insult primarily used for people one knows and/or likes