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Adjacent Wordshic
hic et nunc
hic et ubique
hic jacet
Hiccius doctius
Hiccough
hiccough nut
Hiccoughed
Hiccoughing
hiccup
hiccup nut
hiciel
hickey
hickish
hickmall
Hickock
Hickok
Hickok, Wild Bill
hickory
hickory nut
hickory pine
hickory shad
hickory tree
Hicks
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hick definitions
adj 1: awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists" [syn: bumpkinly, hick, rustic, unsophisticated] n 1: a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon]
I. noun Etymology: Hick, nickname for Richard Date: 1669 an unsophisticated provincial person • hickish adjective II. adjective Date: 1913 unsophisticated, provincial <a hick town>
n. esp. US colloq. a country dweller; a provincial. Etymology: pet-form of the name Richard: cf. DICK(1)
(hicks) If you refer to someone as a hick, you are saying in a rude way that you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside. (INFORMAL) N-COUNT: oft N n [disapproval]
A country hick; an ignorant clown. Cant.
babe, boor, boorish, bucolic, bumpkin, butterfingers, child, child of nature, churlish, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clodhopping, clown, clownish, clumsy, countrified, country bumpkin, country-born, country-bred, dove, dub, duffer, dupe, farmer, farmerish, foozler, foul-up, from the sticks, fumble-fist, gawk, gawky, goof, goofball, goofer, hayseed, hicky, hillbilly, hobnailed, infant, ingenue, innocent, inurbane, lamb, looby, lout, loutish, lubber, lummox, lump, lumpen, lumpish, mere child, muff, muffer, noble savage, oaf, provincial, rube, rustic, simple soul, slob, stumblebum, stumblebunny, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticate, up-country, whistle-stop, yokel, yokelish
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