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"2": "jacquerie",
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"4": "woodpecker"
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"etymology_text": "1812, possibly from dialectal German Jokel, diminutive of Jakob, cf. Yankee (“little John”) and jacquerie (“peasant uprising”). Alternatively, from dialectal English yokel (“woodpecker”).",
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"word": "local yokel"
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{
"word": "yokeldom"
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{
"word": "yokelish"
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{
"word": "yokelism"
},
{
"word": "yokelry"
},
{
"word": "wokel"
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{
"word": "yob"
}
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"text": "They love the scenery near their summer home, but have no desire to mix with the local yokels.",
"type": "example"
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{
"ref": "1895, Stephen Crane, chapter 8, in The Red Badge of Courage, New York: Appleton, page 88",
"text": "He eyed the story-teller with unspeakable wonder. His mouth was agape in yokel fashion.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1985, Peter De Vries, chapter 6, in The Prick of Noon, Penguin, page 119",
"text": "I went to New York and bought myself a secondhand stretch limousine twenty-eight feet long, calculated to reduce the most blasé country-club sophisticates to bug-eyed yokels.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, London: Phoenix, 1994, Chapter 8.6, p. 560,\n‘You may think that because you live in Brahmpur you have seen the world―or more of the world than we poor yokels see. But some of us yokels have also seen the world―and not just the world of Brahmpur, but of Bombay. […] ’"
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"(derogatory) A person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive."
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{
"word": "boor"
},
{
"word": "bumpkin"
},
{
"word": "country bumpkin"
},
{
"word": "joskin"
},
{
"word": "hillbilly"
},
{
"word": "hick"
},
{
"word": "peasant"
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{
"word": "provincial"
},
{
"word": "rube"
},
{
"word": "rustic"
},
{
"word": "yahoo"
}
],
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "taujà"
},
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pagerol"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tǔbāozi",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "土包子"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "鄉下人"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiāngxiàrén",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "乡下人"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "鄉巴佬"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiāngbalǎo",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "乡巴佬"
},
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "(venkovský) balík"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "křupan"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "buran"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "bonderøv"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "bondeknold"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "boerenlul"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "boertje van buut'n"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "kamparano"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"pejorative"
],
"word": "kamparanaĉo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "maalaisjuntti"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "juntti"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "manant"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "plouc"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pailán"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pailana"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pailaroco"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "paifoco"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pastrán"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ṭeṭia",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "ტეტია"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gagria",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "გაგრია"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Bauerntölpel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Hinterwäldler"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Tölpel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Hanswurst"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Simpel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Einfaltspinsel"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Naivling"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "gavār",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "गवार"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "dehātī",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "देहाती"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "paraszt"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "suttyó"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "tahó"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "prosztó"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "bugris"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "mucsai"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "villico"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "campagnolo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bifolco"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zappaterra"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rozzo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "becero"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cafone"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "buzzurro"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "villano"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zoticone"
},
{
"alt": "いなかもの",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "inakamono",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "田舎者"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "petrō"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pāķis"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lauķis"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "sélanec",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "се́ланец"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "séljak",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "се́лјак"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "panekāka"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dommabua"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gbur"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kindybał"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ordynus"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prostak"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "prostaczka"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rústico"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"Brazil",
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "caipira"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "saloio"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "campónio"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "labrego"
},
{
"code": "pa",
"lang": "Punjabi",
"roman": "peṇḍū",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"Gurmukhi",
"masculine"
],
"word": "ਪੇਂਡੂ"
},
{
"code": "pa",
"lang": "Punjabi",
"roman": "penḍū",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"Shahmukhi",
"masculine"
],
"word": "پینْڈُو"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "țăran"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mojic"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bădăran"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "derevénščina",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "дереве́нщина"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "seljak"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "seljačina"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"Mexico",
"masculine"
],
"word": "chúntaro"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "maganda"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "kleynshtetldiker",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "קליינשטעטלדיקער"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "kleynshtetldike",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "קליינשטעטלדיקע"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "poyer",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "פּויער"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "poyerte",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "it",
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "it",
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"masculine"
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"code": "pl",
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"code": "pl",
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"code": "pl",
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"code": "pl",
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"code": "pt",
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],
"word": "rústico"
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "pa",
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"lang": "Punjabi",
"roman": "penḍū",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"Shahmukhi",
"masculine"
],
"word": "پینْڈُو"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "țăran"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mojic"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bădăran"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "derevénščina",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "дереве́нщина"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "seljak"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "seljačina"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"Mexico",
"masculine"
],
"word": "chúntaro"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "maganda"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "kleynshtetldiker",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "קליינשטעטלדיקער"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "kleynshtetldike",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "קליינשטעטלדיקע"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "poyer",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "פּויער"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "poyerte",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "פּויערטע"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "glomp",
"sense": "a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive",
"word": "גלאָמפּ"
}
],
"word": "yokel"
}
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