Hick

4 definitions found

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

  hick \hick\ n.
     A person who is not very intelligent or interested in
     culture; a hayseed.
  
     Syn: yokel, rube, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon.
          [WordNet 1.5]



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

  hick \hick\ adj.
     1. rural. Opposite of {urban}.
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. characteristic of rural people, especially those not
        knowledgeable about matters outside their locality; as,
        hick ideas; a hick town.
  
     Syn: bumpkinly, rustic, unsophisticated.
          [WordNet 1.5] hickey

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hick
       adj : awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys";
             "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of
             Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists" [syn: {bumpkinly},
              {rustic}, {unsophisticated}]
       n : not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: {yokel},
            {rube}, {yahoo}, {hayseed}, {bumpkin}, {chawbacon}]

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

  74 Moby Thesaurus words for "hick":
     babe, boor, boorish, bucolic, bumpkin, butterfingers, child,
     child of nature, churlish, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clodhopping,
     clown, clownish, clumsy, countrified, country bumpkin,
     country-born, country-bred, dove, dub, duffer, dupe, farmer,
     farmerish, foozler, foul-up, from the sticks, fumble-fist, gawk,
     gawky, goof, goofball, goofer, hayseed, hicky, hillbilly,
     hobnailed, infant, ingenue, innocent, inurbane, lamb, looby, lout,
     loutish, lubber, lummox, lump, lumpen, lumpish, mere child, muff,
     muffer, noble savage, oaf, provincial, rube, rustic, simple soul,
     slob, stumblebum, stumblebunny, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured,
     unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticate, up-country, whistle-stop,
     yokel, yokelish