yokels

Meaning of yokels

plural noun

an uneducated and unsophisticated person from the countryside.

early 19th century: perhaps figuratively from dialect yokel ‘green woodpecker’.

Information about yokels

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of yokels is: yokel.
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Hyphenation of yokels

yokels

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • yokels is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

yokels synonyms

Meaning an unsophisticated or socially awkward person from the countryside:

bumpkin

Meaning an unsophisticated country person:

rustic, culchie

Meaning a man living or born in a rural area:

countryman

Meaning a woman living or born in a rural area:

countrywoman

Meaning an ignorant, rude, or unsophisticated person:

peasant

Meaning an inhabitant of the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded:

provincial

Meaning a man who is rough or clumsy and unintelligent:

oaf

Meaning an uncouth and aggressive man or boy:

lout

Meaning a rough and bad-mannered person:

boor

Meaning (in ancient times) a member of a people not belonging to one of the great civilizations (Greek, Roman, Christian):

barbarian

Meaning (in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries) a peasant farmer:

campesino

Meaning an Italian peasant or countryman:

contadino

Meaning an Italian peasant girl or peasant woman:

contadina

Meaning a peasant of Spanish or Italian ethnic origin:

paisano

Meaning a Russian peasant:

muzhik

Meaning a peasant in Russia wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labour. Emerging after the emancipation of serfs in the 19th century the kulaks resisted Stalin's forced collectivization, but millions were a:

kulak

Meaning an Egyptian peasant:

fellah

Meaning an Indian peasant or tenant farmer:

ryot

Meaning a lump of earth or clay:

clod

Meaning a large, heavy shoe:

clodhopper

Meaning a rude, noisy, or violent person:

yahoo

Meaning a rude, noisy, and aggressive young person:

yob

Meaning another term for yob:

yobbo

Meaning a person from a rural area:

bogman

Meaning grass seed obtained from hay:

hayseed

Meaning an unsophisticated country person, as associated originally with the remote regions of the Appalachians:

hillbilly

Meaning a person who lives in the country, regarded as being unintelligent or parochial:

hick

Meaning a country bumpkin:

rube

Meaning a talentless, unattractive, or boorish person:

schlub

Meaning growing thickly:

bushy

Meaning a peasant or man of low birth:

carl

Meaning a rude and mean-spirited person:

churl

Meaning (especially of a bodily part) situated at the back; posterior:

hind

Meaning the part of a metal type projecting beyond the body or shank, or a part of a printed character that overlaps its neighbours:

kern

Meaning a pastoral poem:

bucolic

Words that rhyme with yokels

Buckels, Seckels, cupronickels, deckels, mispickels, nickels, pumpernickels, seckels, teckels, shekels, pannikels, schnorkels, snorkels

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