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Hick

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Noun

1. bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel

a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

Adjective

2. bumpkinly, hick, rustic, unsophisticated

awkwardly simple and provincial

Example Sentences:
'bumpkinly country boys'
'rustic farmers'
'a hick town'
'the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Hick

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noun
informal
a. 
a country person; bumpkin
b. 
(as modifier)
hick ideas

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Hick

see synonyms of hick
noun
1.  Informal
an awkward, unsophisticated person regarded as typical of rural areas; yokel; hayseed
a contemptuous term
adjective
2.  Informal
of or like a hick or hicks

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Hick

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n.
A person regarded as unsophisticated, gullible, or coarse from having lived in the country: "New Yorkers had a horrid way of making people feel like hicks" (Louis Auchincloss).
adj.
Provincial; unsophisticated: a hick town.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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