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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

noun Etymology: Rube, nickname for Reuben Date: 1896 1. an awkward unsophisticated person ; rustic 2. a naive or inexperienced person

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. US colloq. a country bumpkin. Etymology: abbr. of the name Reuben

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(rubes) If you refer to a man or boy as a rube, you consider him stupid and uneducated because he comes from the countryside. (AM INFORMAL) He's no rube. He's a very smart guy. = hick N-COUNT [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

babe, backwoodsman, 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, hick, hicky, hillbilly, hobnailed, infant, ingenue, innocent, inurbane, lamb, looby, lout, loutish, lubber, lummox, lump, lumpen, lumpish, mere child, muff, muffer, noble savage, oaf, provincial, redneck, rustic, simple soul, slob, stumblebum, stumblebunny, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticate, up-country, yokel, yokelish