yokel
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(derogatory, slang)A person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive.
They love the scenery near their summer home, but have no desire to mix with the local yokels.
Some folk'll never eat a skunk, but then again some folk'll, like Cletus, the slack-jawed yokel.
Đồng nghĩa: boor, bumpkin, country bumpkin, joskin, hayseed, hillbilly, hick, peasant, provincial, rube, rustic, yahoo, bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, culchie, carl, churl, corncob, cornhusker, country bumpkin, country cousin, clodhopper, dubbo, joskin, hayseed, hick, hob, hobnail, hog-rubber, honyock, hunk, lob, promdi, provincial, rube, rustic, woolly back, yokel
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First use appears c. 1812, possibly from dialectal de Jokel, diminutive of Jakob, cf. Yankee (little John) and jacquerie (a peasant uprising). Alternatively, from dialectal English yokel, yuckle (a European green woodpecker), itself probably a variant of hickwall.