bumpkin en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈbʊmpkɪn/ (Northern-England)
- /ˈbʌmpkɪn/
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Etymology
From Dutch boomken (“shrub, little tree”), equivalent to boom + -kin. Note that the English word boom is etymologically related to the aforementioned in the sense of "large stem", or "big tree". Compare German Baumke, Bäumchen.
Meanings
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A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.
Since the onset of modernity in the nineteenth century, West Bengalis or ghotis from the Calcutta area, who are generally Hindu, have enjoyed a certain cultural ascendancy within Bengal: they consider themselves more modern, more culturally refined, and more progressive than the bangals, who are dismissed as comparatively backward country bumpkins.
2009, Bhaskar Sarkar, “Bengali Cinema: A Spectral Subnationality”, in Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, part I (A Resonant Silence), page 158:
- A short boom or spar used to extend a sail or secure a stay.
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Dance, a series of reels, Scottish.
They mix with Dancers, who now advance to the front, where a bumpkin, or dance of many interwoven reels, is performed; after which the Bride is led to a seat, and some of her Maidens sit by her.
1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, act 1:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bumpkins | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
bumpkinism · bumpkinly · country bumpkin · joskin · bumpkinish
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
rustic · hillbilly · pink · hick · joskin · savage · ingenue · heathen · philistine · barbarian · country bumpkin
Relateds
Synonyms
kern · clenchpoop · lout · cornball · peasant · bumpkin · rube · clown · yahoo · lubber · boor · Tony Lumpkin · unsophisticate · chuff · tyke · lamb · churl · bogan · jay · chawbacon · yokel
Translations (55)
de Hinterwäldler (yokel) · pdt Dommabua (yokel) · ga cábóg (yokel) · gl pailaroco (yokel) · es montañero (yokel) · it zappaterra (yokel) · fr manant (yokel) · da bondejokke (yokel) · cmn 鄉下人 /乡下人 (yokel) · ga tútachán (yokel) · gl paduán (yokel) · sv klumpeduns (yokel) · es montuno (yokel) · la petrō (yokel) · hy գեղցի (yokel) · la rūsticus (yokel) · gl badoco (yokel) · ko 촌뜨기 (yokel) · fr plouc (yokel) · sv bondläpp (yokel) · sv fårskalle (yokel) · da bondeknold (yokel) · yue 鄉下人 /乡下人 (yokel) · ca pagerol (yokel) · ro țăran (yokel) · bg дръвни́к (yokel) · el βλάκας (yokel) · es grullo (yokel) · es paleto (yokel) · gl paifoco (yokel) · es pueblerino (yokel) · es jíbaro (yokel) · bg пън (yokel) · gl paiolo (yokel) · fi tomppeli (yokel) · es cazurro (yokel) · es cateto (yokel) · es palurdo (yokel) · cmn 鄉下佬 /乡下佬 (yokel) · ca taujà (yokel) · ko 촌놈 (yokel) · it cafone (yokel) · de Tölpel (yokel) · fr péquenaud (yokel) · ko 시골뜨기 (yokel) · it buzzurro (yokel) · hy անտաշ մարդ (yokel) · gl pailán (yokel) · de Bauerntölpel (yokel) · da bonderøv (yokel) · mi panekāka (yokel) · es guajiro (yokel) · it villico (yokel) · ga dundarlán (yokel) · vi nhà quê (yokel)