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Meanings of bumpkin in English
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Examples for "yahoo"
Examples for "yahoo"
1
Just another day in the USA, especially in the yahoo rural heartland.
2
Now any yahoo is going to know just which bus stops where.
3
That means Bing will be the new Yahoo search early next year.
4
The idea behind the deal is twofold for Yahoo, sources previously said.
5
Yahoo added a similar feature to its homepage over a year ago.
1
Now, what in hell did I take on this Yeager rube for?
2
They're never 'appy unless they're kickin' some poor rube over the guy-ropes.
3
More uncomfortably, former friends attacked Crookes's character, calling him a rube, a shill.
4
It's hard to imagine a more rube-goldbergian way of connecting with another person.
5
Active accomplice, or unwitting rube, Natalya's story was the story of this abduction.
1
He's a redneck sheriff in a hick town in a hick county.
2
However, Anthrax's favourite prank was Mr McKenny, the befuddled southern American hick.
3
The record, he promised, will show that Lincoln was no hick lawyer.
4
I've sent people to that hick town of yours to see what happened.
5
He couldn't believe they'd called a whole goddam planet after that hick dirt-town.
1
No local yokel takes down Wedge personnel and walks away from it.
2
A yokel watching a cavalry regiment in Autumn Manoeuvres over a bridge.
3
They are as unpardonable as the yokel rhetoric of our British friends.
4
Anyhow, I, the yokel, had improved on it, and that was something.
5
I must rouse this chuckle-headed yokel and get him to help me.'
1
What could she say that wouldn't make her seem like a hayseed?
2
Carol flung herself on him, her clenching hand on his hayseed-dusty shoulder.
3
THIS city is ruled entirely by the hayseed legislators at Albany.
4
That hayseed with the cider looks suspiciously like our old friend Windy Miller.
5
They think I'm a hayseed and won't have nothin' to do with me.
1
Your chawbacon isn't as cute a fellow as Pat.'
2
I once knew a chawbacon who came to town and was barked at by a street-dog.
3
Chawbacon appears in another plate, or else Chawbacon's brother.
4
I walked over to Poplar Cove and sat around the postoffice and store, talking with the chawbacons that came in to trade.
Usage of bumpkin in English
1
Why, that is the young bumpkin I came in with this morning.
2
What I did next confirmed me as a bumpkin from unsophisticated Dublin.
3
And Gullik himself seemed much deeper than his bumpkin norn exterior appeared.
4
Indeed, I think he rather despised me for a thick-headed country bumpkin.
5
Now, you've no more idea how to behave than a country bumpkin.
6
I've a mind to get down and baste the surly bumpkin's hide.
7
Don't stop a little bumpkin buster what's got business in both hands.
8
That gentleman faintly defended the stranger for the intrusion of the bumpkin tune.
9
Is Costard the bumpkin the best actor in the Mask of the Worthies?
10
Even a country bumpkin ought to be able to do a simple handstand.
11
To the country bumpkin the city is an Eldorado and a lordly pleasure-house.
12
The bumpkin comes up to marriageable age, and takes the first-
13
This sounds like something that bumpkin aunt of yours would come up with.
14
Menandros, that cosmopolitan Greek, stared in wonder like any provincial bumpkin.
15
Stop your chatter, bumpkin, and take this copper for your trouble.
16
I don't believe a bumpkin like you could manage all that.
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Bumpkin through the time
Bumpkin across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common