About The Word Bumpkin
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Bumpkin
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What's The Definition Of Bumpkin?
[n] not very intelligent or interested in culture
Synonyms | Synonyms for Bumpkin: chawbacon | hayseed | hick | rube | yahoo | yokel Related Terms | Find terms related to Bumpkin: boor | bucolic | clod | clodhopper | clown | country bumpkin | farmer | gawk | gawky | hayseed | hick | hillbilly | looby | lout | lubber | lummox | oaf | provincial | rube | rustic | yokel See Also | rustic Bumpkin In Webster's Dictionary \Bump"kin\, n. [The same word as bumkin, which Cotgrave
defines thus: ``Bumkin, Fr. chicambault, the luffe-block, a
long and thick piece of wood, whereunto the fore-sayle and
sprit-sayle are fastened, when a ship goes by the winde.''
Hence, a clumsy man may easily have been compared to such a
block of wood; cf. OD. boomken a little tree. See {Boom} a
pole.]
An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout.
``Bashful country bumpkins.'' --W. Irving.
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