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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BUMP'KIN, n. [bump, large, swelling.] An awkward heavy rustic; a clown, or country lout.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: perhaps from Dutch bommekijn small cask, from Middle Dutch, from bomme cask Date: 1570 an awkward and unsophisticated rustic • bumpkinish adjective • bumpkinly adjective II. noun or bumkin Etymology: probably from Dutch boomken, diminutive of boom tree Date: circa 1632 a spar projecting from a ship especially at the stern

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a rustic or socially inept person. Etymology: perh. Du. boomken little tree or MDu. bommekijn little barrel

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bumpkin Bump"kin, n. [The same word as bumkin, which Cotgrave defines thus: ``Bumkin, Fr. chicambault, the luffe-block, a long and thick piece of wood, whereunto the fore-sayle and sprit-sayle are fastened, when a ship goes by the winde.'' Hence, a clumsy man may easily have been compared to such a block of wood; cf. OD. boomken a little tree. See Boom a pole.] An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. ``Bashful country bumpkins.'' --W. Irving.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(bumpkins) If you refer to someone as a bumpkin, you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside. ...unsophisticated country bumpkins. = yokel N-COUNT [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Rustic, peasant, clodpoll, clown, boor, hind, lout, lubber, swain, ploughman, country-fellow, chaw-bacon (colloq.).

Moby Thesaurus

boor, bucolic, clod, clodhopper, clown, country bumpkin, farmer, gawk, gawky, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, looby, lout, lubber, lummox, oaf, provincial, rube, rustic, yokel