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Meanings of yokel 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
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.
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 yokel in English
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.'
6
Gilhaelith grinned like a yokel, but his liver was crusted with ice.
7
And he pointed to the half-tipsy yokel who was ploughing down the road.
8
And, bidding Pierrebon give the yokel a coin, we pressed forwards.
9
One George he insisted upon regarding as a buffoon, another as a yokel.
10
The man was actually wearing a smock, like a joke yokel.
11
He stormed into the yard like some yokel berserker; teeth bared, fists clenched.
12
Catweazle wore a brown romper suit and acted like a yokel.
13
Come hither, thou great yokel, at risk of fine and imprisonment.'
14
In the dim local yokel mind Paul was a failure, and he knew it.
15
He lounged in the doorway and looked at me and said smilingly, Hello, yokel.
16
The burglar's dog is a thief; the country yokel has a stupid, unintelligent dog.
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