Thesaurus:country bumpkin
English
Noun
Sense: unsophisticated person from the rural area of a particular country
Synonyms
- bogger (UK, Ireland)
- bogtrotter (Ireland)
- boor
- bucolic
- bydlo (Eastern Europe, Russia)
- culchie (Ireland)
- carl
- churl
- corncob (US)
- cornhusker (US)
- country bumpkin
- country cousin
- clodhopper
- dubbo (Australia)
- joskin
- hayseed (US)
- hillbilly (US)
- hick
- hob (obsolete)
- hobnail (obsolete)
- hog-rubber (obsolete)
- honyock (US)
- hunk (US)
- lob (obsolete)
- promdi (Philippines)
- provincial
- redneck (US)
- rube (US)
- rustic
- woolly back (UK)
- yokel
Hyponyms
- blowsabella (obsolete)
Hypernyms
- bumpkin [⇒ thesaurus]
- idiot [⇒ thesaurus]
- rural dweller [⇒ thesaurus]
Various
Further reading
- “country bumpkin” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “country bumpkin” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.