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UK
/bˈʌmpkɪn/
]
[ US /ˈbəmpkɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈbəmpkɪn/ ]
NOUN
- a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
How To Use bumpkin In A Sentence
- And I do believe that that bumpkin 's flower was even finer than the one you lost to me, all those years ago. STARDUST
- And he wasn't about fall for the trap the country bumpkins at Auburn laid for him.
- They're kind of bumpkinish, they have cockfights and stuff, and they don't really know the world outside the chicken farm.
- Our image as a bunch of bumpkins who roll over for anything that comes down the pike?
- We country bumpkins are older and wiser and financially poorer now because of increased parish rates.
- We are fortunate that we have thoughtful leaders in the White House, rather than the "hate the government (i.e., country)" bumpkins from the red states. Pawlenty slams Dems on 'reckless' spending
- Simple but elegant, not bumpkinish. Times, Sunday Times
- Equally, country folk have been called bumpkins, even pumpkins and sheep-shaggers, amongst other names. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4
- Sending a triumvirate of trained pollsters and media men into the bumpkin's backwoods barrio, he hopes to help the honky-tonk hick win more than his fair share of the illiterate Appalachian vote.
- There have portrayed all country people as stupid bumpkins.