yokel in English

noun
1
an uneducated and unsophisticated person from the countryside.
She confirmed my suspicions of country folk being idiotic yokels as correct.

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1. The clothes makes him look like a yokel.

2. But George Bailey is not a common , ordinary yokel.

3. He plays the country yokel in the butter ad.

4. His mouth was agape in yokel fashion.

5. George Biley is not a ordinary yokel.

6. The clothes makes him look like a slack - jaw yokel.

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

8. Synonyms for Countrywoman include farmer, bumpkin, farmhand, paysanne, peasant, provincial, rustic, yokel, campesina and contadina

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

10. Who but Ashton would have thought of giving this country yokel so delicate a movement?

11. At school, his classmates regarded him as a yokel and laughed at his rustic mannerisms.

12. Sure, peddle a few lightning rods, pick up a couple of bucks in a shell game fleece a yokel without even scratching him and you're a scalawag.

13. Van Buren and his lieutenants, including Calhoun, were Chagrined and humiliated.: Thebold had been Chagrined at learning that Don Cort was not the yokel he had taken him for.: Much Chagrined, and burning with indignation, fullam briefly cried out to his men to advance quickly.: And presently, Chagrined with failure, the culprit was before his grandsire