Bumpkin

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bumpkin
       n : not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: {yokel},
            {rube}, {hick}, {yahoo}, {hayseed}, {chawbacon}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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