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What (who) is bumpkin - definition
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Bumpkin (disambiguation)
bumpkin
n. a country bumpkin
bumpkin
n.
Rustic, peasant, clodpoll, clown, boor, hind, lout, lubber, swain, ploughman, country-fellow, chaw-bacon (colloq.).
bumpkin
¦ noun an unsophisticated country person.
Derivatives
bumpkinish adjective
Origin
C16: perh. from Du. boomken 'little tree' or MDu. bommekijn 'little barrel', denoting a dumpy person.
Wikipedia
Bumpkin
Bumpkin may refer to:
- Country bumpkin, a synonym for the term yokel; a foolish, poorly educated person from a rural region
- Boomkin, also known as a bumpkin, part of a sailboat
Examples of use of bumpkin
1. Huckabee studied theology as a seminarian, yet when asked about Mormonism he becomes a country bumpkin who doesn‘t know anything beyond the rumors he has heard.
2. He discovered the character originated as either a country bumpkin called Maccus, or comic servant called Bucco that developed into Pulcinella, a character from the Italian ‘maschere‘ – or masked characters used in plays.
3. I‘m a country bumpkin at heart who likes fishing and pottering around and just happens to have this job that takes him to the city and is very busy.
4. Bachchan‘s Don, a runaway 1'78 hit, told the story of a gangster whose death is kept a secret by police because they want to infiltrate his gang with a lookalike country bumpkin.
5. By contrast, Jean–Pierre Raffarin, the man who was dismissed as prime minister Tuesday, is a rumpled, self–described "bumpkin from the provinces" who coined the phrase, "the ordinary people from below." He started out in life as a wholesale coffee salesman and served as a senator, the president of a regional council and a member of the European Parliament from the farming region of Poitou–Charentes.