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A rustic; a bumpkin.
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Yokel is a derogatory term referring to the stereotype of unsophisticated country people.
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In the United States, it is used to describe someone living in rural areas. Synonyms for yokel include country bumpkin, hayseed, chawbacon, rube, redneck and hick.
In the UK, yokels are traditionally depicted as wearing the old West Country/farmhand's dress of straw hat and white smock, chewing or sucking a piece of straw and carrying a pitchfork or rake, listening to "Scrumpy and Western" music. Yokels are portrayed as living in rural areas of Britain such as the West Country, East Anglia, the Yorkshire Dales, the Scottish Highlands and Wales. British yokels speak with country dialects from various parts of Britain.[1]
Yokels are depicted as straightforward, simple and naive, and they are easily deceived as they fail to see through false pretenses.[citation needed] They are also depicted as talking about bucolic topics like cows, sheep, goats, wheat, alfalfa, fields, crops, tractors, and buxom wenches to the exclusion of all else. They don't seem to be aware of, or at least show interest in, the world outside their own surroundings.[citation needed]
The development of television brought many previously isolated communities into mainstream British culture in the 1950s and 1960s. The Internet continues this integration, further eroding the town/country divide. In the 21st century British country folk are less frequently seen as yokels. In British TV Show The Two Ronnies, it was asserted that despite political correctness, it is possible to poke fun at yokels as no one sees oneself as being one.
In Scotland, those from the Highlands and Islands, Moray, Aberdeenshire, and other rural areas are often referred to by urban or lowland Scots as teuchters.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary the term is a "by-form" of the personal name Richard (like Dick) and Hob (like Bob) for Robert. Although the English word "hick" is of recent vintage, distinctions between urban and rural dwellers are ancient.
According to a popular etymology derives from the nickname "Old Hickory" for Andrew Jackson, one of the first Presidents of the United States to come from rural hard-scrabble roots. This nickname suggested that Jackson was tough and enduring like an old Hickory tree. Jackson was particularly admired by the residents of remote and mountainous areas of the United States, people who would come to be known as "hicks."
Though not a term explicitly denoting lower class, some argue that the term degrades impoverished rural people and that "hicks" continue as one of the few groups that can be ridiculed and stereotyped with impunity. In "The Redneck Manifesto," Jim Goad argues that this stereotype has largely served to blind the general population to the economic exploitation of rural areas, specifically in Appalachia, the South, and parts of the Midwest.
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - bondeknold
Nederlands (Dutch)
boerenpummel
Français (French)
n. - péquenaud, plouc
Deutsch (German)
n. - Bauerntölpel
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μπουρτζόβλαχος, χωριάταρος
Português (Portuguese)
n. - rústico (m)
Español (Spanish)
n. - palurdo, indio, montañero
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - lantis, tölp
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
庄稼汉, 乡下人
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 莊稼漢, 鄉下人
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) فلاح, ريفي, جلف
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - בור כפרי, איש-כפר, אדם מגושם
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