bumpkin
Meaning of bumpkin
noun
- an unsophisticated or socially awkward person from the countryside.
she thought Tom a bit of a country bumpkin
late 16th century: perhaps from Dutch boomken ‘little tree’ or Middle Dutch bommekijn ‘little barrel’, used to denote a dumpy person.
Information about bumpkin
- It is a name.
- The plural form of bumpkin is: bumpkins.
- Languages in which bumpkin is used:
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Hyphenation of bumpkin
bump-kin
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- bumpkin is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
bumpkin synonyms
Meaning yokel:
yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, chawbacon
Meaning an unsophisticated country person:
Meaning a man living or born in a rural area:
Meaning a woman living or born in a rural area:
Meaning an ignorant, rude, or unsophisticated person:
Meaning an inhabitant of a province of a country or empire:
Meaning a man who is rough or clumsy and unintelligent:
Meaning an uncouth and aggressive man or boy:
Meaning a rough and bad-mannered person:
Meaning (in ancient times) a member of a people not belonging to one of the great civilizations (Greek, Roman, Christian):
Meaning a lump of earth or clay:
Meaning a large, heavy shoe:
Meaning a rude, noisy, and aggressive young person:
Meaning another term for yob:
Meaning a person from a rural area:
Meaning an unsophisticated country person, as associated originally with the remote regions of the Appalachians:
Meaning a talentless, unattractive, or boorish person:
Meaning growing thickly:
Meaning a peasant or man of low birth:
Meaning a rude and mean-spirited person:
Meaning (especially of a bodily part) situated at the back; posterior:
Meaning the part of a metal type projecting beyond the body or shank, or a part of a printed character that overlaps its neighbours:
Meaning a pastoral poem:
bumpkin antonyms
Meaning a person with much worldly experience and knowledge of fashion and culture:
Words that rhyme with bumpkin
capkin, napkin, Lipkin, naipkin, pipkin, Lumpkin, limpkin, lumpkin, pumpkin, simpkin
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