Definition of Yokel

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rude farmer, country bumpkin
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
(n.)
A country bumpkin.
  
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yokel
\yo"kel\ (?), n. [perhaps from an as. word akin to e. gawk.] a country bumpkin. [eng.]
yokel
n : not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon]




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English Idioms WM 1.3a
See local yokel
Australian Slang
(derogatory) person from a rural area; country bumpkin
inhabitant(s) of a town, suburb, etc.
WordNet 2.0

Noun
1. not very intelligent or interested in culture
(synonym) rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon
(hypernym) rustic
Yokel Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Yokel is a derogatory term referring to the stereotype of unsophisticated country people.

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