- yokel
- yokel (n.) 1812, perhaps from dialectal Ger. Jokel, disparaging name for a farmer, originally dim. of Jakob. Or perhaps from English yokel, dialectal name for "woodpecker."
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yokel — ► NOUN ▪ an unsophisticated country person. ORIGIN perhaps from dialect yokel «green woodpecker» … English terms dictionary
Yokel — Yo kel, n. [Perhaps from an AS. word akin to E. gawk.] A country bumpkin. [Eng.] Dickens. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
yokel — bumpkin, hick, rube, clodhopper, clown, lout, *boor, churl … New Dictionary of Synonyms
yokel — [n] person who is mired in local custom backwoods person, boor*, country cousin*, country person, hayseed*, peasant, rustic; concept 413 … New thesaurus
yokel — [yō′kəl] n. [prob. < dial., green woodpecker] a person living in a rural area; rustic; country bumpkin: a contemptuous term … English World dictionary
Yokel — Country bumpkin redirects here. For the pony in J. R. R. Tolkien s legendarium, see Bumpkin (Middle earth). For the song by country music singer Cal Smith, see Country Bumpkin (song). Yokel is a derogatory term referring to the stereotype of… … Wikipedia
yokel — UK [ˈjəʊk(ə)l] / US [ˈjoʊk(ə)l] noun [countable] Word forms yokel : singular yokel plural yokels impolite someone who is not very intelligent or who does not know a lot about the world, usually because they come from a small town or village … English dictionary
yokel — A contemptuous term for a country bumpkin, in use since the beginning of the nineteenth century. It may derive from the connection of a yoke with a ploughman, though yokel was also a dialect word for a kind of woodpecker. The word is not often … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
yokel — noun Etymology: perhaps from English dialect yokel green woodpecker, of imitative origin Date: circa 1812 a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town … New Collegiate Dictionary
yokel — yo|kel [ˈjəukəl US ˈjou ] n [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: Perhaps from yokel green woodpecker ] someone who comes from the countryside, seems stupid, and does not know much about modern life, ideas etc used humorously … Dictionary of contemporary English
