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Meanings of
hick
in English
Portuguese
rústico
Catalan
dropo
Spanish
paleto
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A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture.
yahoo
rube
bumpkin
yokel
hayseed
chawbacon
Portuguese
rústico
Awkwardly simple and provincial.
rustic
unsophisticated
bumpkinly
Related terms
provincial
Synonyms
Examples for "
rustic
"
rustic
unsophisticated
bumpkinly
Examples for "
rustic
"
1
Wood paneling creates a
rustic
feel well suited to the open road.
2
The supporting cast of independent,
rustic
characters deliver their lines without conviction.
3
It was more
rustic
and unrestrained-morein the nature of a picnic.
4
The real
rustic
does think London the finest place on the planet.
5
She belonged in an atmosphere too sophisticated for his simple
rustic
soul.
1
Shurtleff said the boy who plays Jody must be natural, easy,
unsophisticated
.
2
The controls had been kept as straightforward and deliberately
unsophisticated
as possible.
3
He was as
unsophisticated
as she in the affairs of the heart.
4
Middle-aged,
unsophisticated
ideas of domestic tastes will find the surroundings almost ideal.
5
This suggests that students aren't the
unsophisticated
consumers that many academics fear.
Usage of
hick
in English
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.
6
She grew up in a
hick
town in apartheid South Africa.
7
It was a small
hick
town when we were growing up.
8
Or some
hick
in the cuttin' room may kill 'em dead.
9
He was a
hick
,
a town-clown, if you weren't careful where you looked.
10
Don't go and load up with sandwiches like a town
hick
.
11
Aren't you that
hick
girl who lives out in the swamp?
12
Travel, for instance-andnot riding the rods from one
hick
burg to another, either.
13
The joy of Yoakam is believing that he is a
hick
with real attitude.
14
She could be an aging California girl or a backwoods
hick
with equal ease.
15
Y-You ride d-d-double b-behind me, in c-case w-we have to make a
quih-
hick
g-g-getaway.
16
The other man studied the
hick
for a moment and then said: 'That's easy.
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Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
hick
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
little hick
dumb hick
real hick
american hick
big hick
More collocations
Translations for
hick
Portuguese
rústico
caipira
Catalan
dropo
taujà
janot
Spanish
paleto
Hick
through the time
Hick
across language varieties
United States of America
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