country bumpkins
Unsophisticated rural folk
Country bumpkins are unsophisticated rural people, especially as perceived by city dwellers.
The term carries condescension, suggesting someone naive, poorly educated, or unfamiliar with urban customs and manners: The locals treated us like country bumpkins.
Bumpkin alone carries the same meaning; country intensifies it.
- bumpkinsUnsophisticated country people
- clodhoppersLarge, heavy shoes
- hillbilliesRural mountain people
- rubesGullible country folk
- peasantsLow-ranking agricultural workers
rustic · provincial · hayseeds · naïve · born yesterday · yokels · unsophisticated · boors · hick · behind the times · small towns · small town life · corn · simple-minded · countrysides · backward · unrefined · gullible
- easy targetssuckers, dupes, marks, patsies, rubes
- rural folkpeasantry, countryfolk, farmers, farmhands, farm workers
country bumpkinscity slickers
Urban dwellers, countryside-naive
urbanites · cosmopolitans · sophisticates · metropolitans · city dwellers
country bumpkinssophisticates
Worldly, cultured individuals
elites · socialites · high society · literati · upper crust
country, countries, countrified, countryside, bumpkin, bump, bumps, bumped, bumping