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bumpkin

[ UK /bˈʌmpkɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈbəmpkɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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.
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