bumpkin 音标拼音: [b'ʌmpkɪn]
n . 土包子;乡下人
土包子;乡下人
bumpkin n 1 :
a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture [
synonym : {
yokel }, {
rube }, {
hick }, {
yahoo }, {
hayseed },
{
bumpkin }, {
chawbacon }]
Bumpkin \
Bump "
kin \,
n . [
The same word as bumkin ,
which Cotgrave defines thus : "
Bumkin ,
Fr .
chicambault ,
the luffe -
block ,
a long and thick piece of wood ,
whereunto the fore -
sayle and sprit -
sayle are fastened ,
when a ship goes by the winde ."
Hence ,
a clumsy man may easily have been compared to such a block of wood ;
cf .
OD .
boomken a little tree .
See {
Boom }
a pole .]
An awkward ,
heavy country fellow ;
a clown ;
a country lout .
"
Bashful country bumpkins ." --
W .
Irving .
[
1913 Webster ]
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "
bumpkin ":
boor ,
bucolic ,
clod ,
clodhopper ,
clown ,
country bumpkin ,
farmer ,
gawk ,
gawky ,
hayseed ,
hick ,
hillbilly ,
looby ,
lout ,
lubber ,
lummox ,
oaf ,
provincial ,
rube ,
rustic ,
yokel
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