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Synonyms for bumpkin

  • noun

Most common

hick rube lout boor bum loafer clod hopper

All synonyms

Noun

1. Yokel

rube, hick, boor, lout, peasant, gawky, rustic, yahoo, countryman, lubber, hayseed, churl, lummox informal, frigger, country bumpkin informal, bucolic, gawk, yokel slang, clown dated, hog-rubber dated, chawbacon dated, knuff dated

Other

clod hopper, bum, loafer, hill-billy

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.

Related words

Word family
bumpkinish bumpkinly
Phrases
country bumpkin
Is a kind of
person

Forms

Plural
bumpkins → rubes, hicks, boors, louts…

Example sentences

  • hick The truth is that Tom is not such a hick, buddy.
  • rube When I moved to New York, everyone I met treated me like a rube.
  • lout Trump is a lout, because he talks and acts like a lout.
  • boor My grandpa describes a Karen as a boor.
  • bum That lazy bum hasn't done a hand's turn in his life.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
bumpkinrising
hickrising
ruberising
loutrising
boorsteady
bumrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
bum1
4 letters
rube1, hick1, gawk1, boor1, lout1
5 letters
yahoo2, clown1, gawky2, yokel2, churl, knuff
6 letters
rustic2, loafer2, lubber2, lummox
7 letters
peasant2, bucolic3, hayseed, frigger
9 letters
chawbacon
10 letters
countryman3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (yahoo2 = 2 syllables).

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