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What (who) is rube - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
rube
Person or persons with little clue about culture. A clueless dolt.
Josh is a rube, he needs to grab a clue from the clue bag.
Josh is a rube, he needs to grab a clue from the clue bag.
rube
(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]
rube
[ru:b]
¦ noun N. Amer. informal a country bumpkin.
Origin
C19: abbrev. of the given name Reuben.
Wikipedia
Rube
A rube is a country bumpkin or an inexperienced, unsophisticated person.
Rube is also sometimes used as a nickname, for Reuben, Ruben or Rubin.
Examples of use of rube
1. He also won‘t let his best friend, the boobish rube Cal (John C.
2. Earlier, he did a good job as a home–educated rube in a high school "quiz bowl" sketch.
3. Democrats have contrived a nominating contest that even Rube Goldberg would have considered too convoluted, too dysfunctional and too improbable to name as his own.
4. But the department designed in secrecy and haste in the White House basement and complicated further on Capitol Hill was hobbled from the start by what the branders called a "Rube Goldberg drawing" of an organization chart.
5. Indeed, it was Wall Street‘s Masters of the Universe who created the Rube Goldberg bundling of and speculation on mortgage securities –– subject to few, if any, regulations –– that now threaten the nation‘s economy, not to mention their own jobs.