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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: perhaps from English dialect yokel green woodpecker, of imitative origin Date: circa 1812 a naive or gullible inhabitant of a rural area or small town

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a rustic; a country bumpkin. Etymology: perh. f. dial. yokel green woodpecker

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Yokel Yo"kel, n. [Perhaps from an AS. word akin to E. gawk.] A country bumpkin. [Eng.] --Dickens.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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

Moby Thesaurus

Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, babe, backwoodsman, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, boor, boorish, botcher, bounder, bourgeois, bucolic, bumbler, bumpkin, bungler, cad, child, child of nature, churl, churlish, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clodhopping, clodknocker, clot, clown, clownish, countrified, country bumpkin, country-born, country-bred, dolt, dove, dupe, epicier, farmer, farmerish, from the sticks, fumbler, gawk, gawky, gowk, groundling, guttersnipe, hayseed, hick, hicky, hillbilly, hobnailed, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, infant, ingenue, innocent, inurbane, klutz, lamb, looby, lout, loutish, low fellow, lubber, lummox, lumpen, lumpish, mere child, mucker, noble savage, nouveau riche, oaf, ox, parvenu, peasant, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rube, ruffian, rustic, simple soul, slouch, slubberer, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticate, up-country, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yokelish