Thesaurus:country bumpkin

Thesaurus

country bumpkin

English

Noun

Sense: unsophisticated person from the rural area of a particular country

Synonyms

• bogger (UK, Ireland)
• bogtrotter (Ireland)
• boor
• bucolic
• culchie (Ireland)
• carl
• churl
• corncob (US)
• cornhusker (US)
• country bumpkin
• country cousin
• clodhopper
• dubbo (Australia)
• joskin
• hayseed (US)
• hillbilly (US)
• hick
• hob (obsolete)
• hobnail (obsolete)
• hog-rubber (obsolete)
• lob (obsolete)
• provincial
• redneck (US)
• rube (US)
• rustic
• woolly back (UK)
• yokel

Hyponyms

• blowsabella (obsolete)

Hypernyms

• bumpkin    [⇒ thesaurus]
• idiot    [⇒ thesaurus]
• rural dweller    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• fall off the turnip truck
• roughneck
• roustabout

Further reading

• “country bumpkin” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “country bumpkin” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.