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bumpkin 音標拼音: [b'ʌmpkɪn] n. 土包子;鄉下人 土包子;鄉下人 bumpkin n 1: a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture [ synonym: { yokel}, { rube}, { hick}, { yahoo}, { hayseed}, { bumpkin}, { chawbacon}] 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] 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
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