country bumpkin
a person from a rural area who is stupid
TRANSLATION
country bumpkin = der Bauerntölpel, das Landei --- GOOGLE INDEX country bumpkin: approximately 185,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
In the film, Bruce plays Tang Lung, essentially a COUNTRY BUMPKIN sent from Hong Kong by his family to help out a relative in Rome whose restaurant is being targeted by a crime mob.
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Martin Blunos is no COUNTRY BUMPKIN. In fact, he’s a Michelin-starred chef, as well as one of the judges on BBC Two show Food Poker.
(Management Today)
(BBC Films)
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Martin Blunos is no COUNTRY BUMPKIN. In fact, he’s a Michelin-starred chef, as well as one of the judges on BBC Two show Food Poker.
(Management Today)
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country bumpkin
noun phrase
- a person from the countryside who is considered to be (socially) awkward and stupid
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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The term bumpkin may at one time have been directed at an entire people rather than that segment of the population living in a rural area. The first recorded appearance of the word in 1570 is masked by the Latin word Batavus, "Dutchman," making it reasonable to suggest that bumpkin may come from either the Middle Dutch word bommekijn, "little barrel," or the Flemish word boomken, "shrub."
The connection would be between a short and thick object and the short rotund figure of the Dutchman that was once in the popular imagination. Any bumpkin would surely prefer this etymology to the suggestion that bumpkin is a derivative of bum, "the rear end."
(adapted from the American Heritage Dictionary)
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SYNONYMS
clodhopper, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, yokel
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"In the summer, Florida's beaches are full of country bumpkins on holiday."
noun phrase
- a person from the countryside who is considered to be (socially) awkward and stupid
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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The term bumpkin may at one time have been directed at an entire people rather than that segment of the population living in a rural area. The first recorded appearance of the word in 1570 is masked by the Latin word Batavus, "Dutchman," making it reasonable to suggest that bumpkin may come from either the Middle Dutch word bommekijn, "little barrel," or the Flemish word boomken, "shrub."
The connection would be between a short and thick object and the short rotund figure of the Dutchman that was once in the popular imagination. Any bumpkin would surely prefer this etymology to the suggestion that bumpkin is a derivative of bum, "the rear end."
(adapted from the American Heritage Dictionary)
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SYNONYMS
clodhopper, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, yokel
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"In the summer, Florida's beaches are full of country bumpkins on holiday."
