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yokel

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yokel
noun
the yokels drank cider and pronounced it “zyder”:
bumpkin, country bumpkin, country cousin, rustic, countryman, countrywoman, country dweller, son/daughter of the soil, peasant, provincial, oaf, lout, boor, barbarian;
French paysan;
Spanish campesino;
Italian contadino, contadina, paisano;
Russian muzhik, kulak;
in Egypt fellah;
Indian ryot;
informal clod, clodhopper, yahoo, yob, yobbo;
Irish, informal culchie, bogman;
North American, informal hayseed, hillbilly, hick, rube, schlub;
Australian, informal bushy;
archaic carl, churl, hind, kern;
rare bucolic.
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