A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture.
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Examples for "rube"
Examples for "rube"
1Now, what in hell did I take on this Yeager rube for?
2They're never 'appy unless they're kickin' some poor rube over the guy-ropes.
3More uncomfortably, former friends attacked Crookes's character, calling him a rube, a shill.
4It's hard to imagine a more rube-goldbergian way of connecting with another person.
5Active accomplice, or unwitting rube, Natalya's story was the story of this abduction.
1He's a redneck sheriff in a hick town in a hick county.
2However, Anthrax's favourite prank was Mr McKenny, the befuddled southern American hick.
3The record, he promised, will show that Lincoln was no hick lawyer.
4I've sent people to that hick town of yours to see what happened.
5He couldn't believe they'd called a whole goddam planet after that hick dirt-town.
1Why, that is the young bumpkin I came in with this morning.
2What I did next confirmed me as a bumpkin from unsophisticated Dublin.
3And Gullik himself seemed much deeper than his bumpkin norn exterior appeared.
4Indeed, I think he rather despised me for a thick-headed country bumpkin.
5Now, you've no more idea how to behave than a country bumpkin.
1No local yokel takes down Wedge personnel and walks away from it.
2A yokel watching a cavalry regiment in Autumn Manoeuvres over a bridge.
3They are as unpardonable as the yokel rhetoric of our British friends.
4Anyhow, I, the yokel, had improved on it, and that was something.
5I must rouse this chuckle-headed yokel and get him to help me.'
1What could she say that wouldn't make her seem like a hayseed?
2Carol flung herself on him, her clenching hand on his hayseed-dusty shoulder.
3THIS city is ruled entirely by the hayseed legislators at Albany.
4That hayseed with the cider looks suspiciously like our old friend Windy Miller.
5They think I'm a hayseed and won't have nothin' to do with me.
1Your chawbacon isn't as cute a fellow as Pat.'
2I once knew a chawbacon who came to town and was barked at by a street-dog.
3Chawbacon appears in another plate, or else Chawbacon's brother.
4I walked over to Poplar Cove and sat around the postoffice and store, talking with the chawbacons that came in to trade.
1Just another day in the USA, especially in the yahoo rural heartland.
2Now any yahoo is going to know just which bus stops where.
3His resonse is a monstrous yahoo that connects only with fresh air.
4That means Bing will be the new Yahoo search early next year.
5The idea behind the deal is twofold for Yahoo, sources previously said.
6Yahoo added a similar feature to its homepage over a year ago.
7A Yahoo spokeswoman said the company was not immediately prepared to comment.
8Last year the two companies along with Yahoo formed an advertising alliance.
9Yahoo was not immediately available for comment outside regular U.S. business hours.
10But Yahoo said users would not notice a change in their experience.
11At the time, Yahoo said the board knew nothing of the deal.
12Yahoo has said it is targeting deals to reach 750 million users.
13Murdoch has held on-again, off-again discussions with Yahoo over the past year.
14More than a year into Mayer's tenure, Yahoo's core business remains stagnant.
15Government regulators also rushed to say they would investigate any Google-Yahoo partnership.
16Microsoft came first, in September 2007, followed the next year by Yahoo.