bumpkin
noun
[ ˈbʌm(p)kɪn ]
• an unsophisticated or socially awkward person from the countryside.
• "she thought Tom a bit of a country bumpkin"
Similar:
yokel,
country cousin,
rustic,
countryman,
countrywoman,
country dweller,
son/daughter of the soil,
peasant,
provincial,
oaf,
lout,
boor,
barbarian,
clod,
clodhopper,
yahoo,
yob,
yobbo,
culchie,
bogman,
hayseed,
hillbilly,
hick,
rube,
schlub,
bushy,
carl,
churl,
hind,
kern,
bucolic,
Origin:
late 16th century: perhaps from Dutch boomken ‘little tree’ or Middle Dutch bommekijn ‘little barrel’, used to denote a dumpy person.
