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bumpkinism en · NOUN

Etymology

From bumpkin + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The fact or quality of being a bumpkin.
    • Unavoidably the economic crisis brought about by Mao's bumpkinism rocked the Communist boat. 1967, Chinese Communist Affairs, volume 4, page 57:
    • But from the point of view of Joseph II and his successors it was a purely Enlightenment project – the rescue of a benighted land from the feudal bumpkinism of Polish aristocrats. 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 324: