hick
Unsophisticated rural person
A hick is an unsophisticated person from a rural area—someone perceived as provincial, uneducated, or unfamiliar with urban ways.
The word is mildly insulting: Some hick from the sticks wouldn't understand.
As an adjective, it describes backward rural places or attitudes: a hick town, hick accent.
Naïve rural person
- bumpkinUnsophisticated country dweller
- rubeNaive country person
- hillbillyRural mountain dweller stereotype
- hayseedSlang for rustic person
redneck · clodhopper · boor · oaf · lout · country bumpkin · backwoodsman · cornpone
Trousers with bib front
- banjoFretted drum-stringed instrument
- moonshineIllegally distilled spirits
- pickup truckLight cargo vehicle
- drawlUnhurried, elongated speech pattern
cornfed · whittling · plaid · straw hat · front porch · barefoot · toothless · shotgun
Easily deceived
- unsophisticatedLacking refinement or complexity
- unworldlyLacking practical awareness
- innocentFree from moral wrong
- credulousProne to blind trust
trusting · ingenuous · simple · green · inexperienced · artless · guileless · wide-eyed
Sovereign state or territory
- backwoodsRemote, undeveloped rural area
- boondocksRemote rural areas
- sticksSlender wood pieces
- farmlandAgricultural terrain
countryside · outback · bush · hinterland · heartland · backcountry · boonies · one-horse town
Narrow in perspective
- insularNarrow in outlook
- narrow-mindedIntolerant of differing views
- small-townLimited local outlook
- backwardToward what's behind
close-minded · limited · myopic · unpolished · conventional · traditional · conservative · clannish
yokel
Naïve rural person
- bumpkinUnsophisticated country dweller
- rubeNaive country person
- hillbillyRural mountain dweller stereotype
hayseed · redneck · clodhopper · boor · oaf · lout · country bumpkin · backwoodsman · cornpone · sodbuster
overalls
Trousers with bib front
- banjoFretted drum-stringed instrument
- moonshineIllegally distilled spirits
- pickup truckLight cargo vehicle
drawl · cornfed · whittling · plaid · straw hat · front porch · barefoot · toothless · shotgun · hound dog
gullible
Easily deceived
- unsophisticatedLacking refinement or complexity
- unworldlyLacking practical awareness
- innocentFree from moral wrong
credulous · trusting · ingenuous · simple · green · inexperienced · artless · guileless · wide-eyed · impressionable
country
Sovereign state or territory
farmland · countryside · outback · bush · hinterland · heartland · backcountry · boonies · one-horse town · flyover country
parochial
Narrow in perspective
- insularNarrow in outlook
- narrow-mindedIntolerant of differing views
- small-townLimited local outlook
backward · close-minded · limited · myopic · unpolished · conventional · traditional · conservative · clannish · sectarian
- rural peoplefarmer, villagers, farmhand, farmworker, farmers
- Redneckredneck, hillbilly, yokel, bumpkin, country bumpkin
- boorsboor, lout, oaf, churl, vulgarian
- Regional LabelsYankee, Midwesterner, Texan, Californian, New Englander
- suckerssucker, lollipop, Dum Dum, Tootsie Pop, all-day sucker
- Country Musichonky tonk, Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, CMT, country pop
hickcity slicker
Savvy metropolitan dweller
urbanite · cosmopolitan · metropolitan · sophisticate · city dweller
hicksophisticate
Worldly, cultured person
cosmopolitan · man of the world · woman of the world · gentleman · lady
- hick town
- hickory dickory dockNonsense nursery verse
- hickory nutEdible seed from American hardwood
- hickory stickHard wood rod
- hickory chipsHardwood pieces for smoking
- Braxton HicksPreparatory womb contractions