yokel
Unsophisticated rural person
A yokel is a person from a rural area, especially one portrayed as unsophisticated or ignorant of city ways.
The word is mildly insulting, suggesting someone naive, slow-witted, or out of place in modern settings: Some yokel in a pickup truck nearly ran me off the road.
It often carries class condescension from urbanites toward country folk.
Rural naif, derogatory
- bumpkinUnsophisticated country dweller
- hillbillyRural mountain dweller stereotype
- hayseedSlang for rustic person
- rubeNaive country person
redneck · clodhopper · boor · oaf · lout · churl · peasant · rustic
Agricultural employee
- villagerRural community inhabitant
- countrymanPerson from same nation
- townsmanMale resident of town
- localOf this area
rustic · provincial · pastoral · bucolic · agrarian · countryside · homesteader · settler
Mouth open from shock
- overallsTrousers with bib front
- pitchforkPronged tool for moving straw
- drawlUnhurried, elongated speech pattern
- twangSharp vibrating sound
gullible · naive · simple · unsophisticated · unworldly · provincial · parochial · small-town
hick
Rural naif, derogatory
- bumpkinUnsophisticated country dweller
- hillbillyRural mountain dweller stereotype
- hayseedSlang for rustic person
rube · redneck · clodhopper · boor · oaf · lout · churl · peasant · rustic · country bumpkin
farmhand
Agricultural employee
- villagerRural community inhabitant
- countrymanPerson from same nation
- townsmanMale resident of town
local · rustic · provincial · pastoral · bucolic · agrarian · countryside · homesteader · settler · plowman
slack-jawed
Mouth open from shock
- overallsTrousers with bib front
- pitchforkPronged tool for moving straw
- drawlUnhurried, elongated speech pattern
twang · gullible · naive · simple · unsophisticated · unworldly · provincial · parochial · small-town · backwoods
- rural peoplefarmer, villagers, farmhand, farmworker, farmers
- Redneckredneck, hillbilly, hick, bumpkin, country bumpkin
- boorsboor, lout, oaf, churl, vulgarian
- Regional LabelsYankee, Midwesterner, Texan, Californian, New Englander
- suckerssucker, lollipop, Dum Dum, Tootsie Pop, all-day sucker
- dimwitsdimwit, idiot, dolt, dunce, moron
yokelcosmopolitan
Culturally sophisticated, internationally fluent
urbanite · city slicker · city dweller · cosmopolite · metropolitan
yokelsophisticate
Worldly, cultured person
man of the world · woman of the world · cosmopolitan · smoothie · smoothy
- under the yokeSubject to domination
- ox yokeBeam connecting draft animals
- shoulder yoke