hick
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9.6
- noun
- /hɪk/
- Offensive
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paleto
- The comedian's jokes often play on the stereotype of a hick from the countryside.
And you think that we we're retrograde and uneducated, just Hicks rednecks.
- And you think that we we're retrograde and uneducated, just Hicks rednecks.
Examples
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The boy said the local high school was a hick school and that no college would take him seriously.
Fiction book (1990) -
And they all said, "You sound like a dumb hick."
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"You get us arrested in one of these hick parts and we'll never get out.
Academic text (2009) -
Every now and then, there'd be some hick kid watching us go by.
Fiction book (2001) -
"And just where do you think you'll get work in this hick town?"
Fiction book (1993) -
Here you are, a gentleman, European, and you have to deal with us hicks.
Fiction book (2001) -
Our family and friends there are downright hicks with a typical pattern of behavior.
Blog text (8) -
You're a dumb hick.
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Many people unfairly label residents of rural areas as hicks simply because of their accents.
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In the city, she felt like a hick due to her lack of knowledge about urban life.
Synonyms
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9.9
A person from the countryside who is not used to city life
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9.6
A person from the countryside who seems uneducated or unaware of city ways
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8.9
A person from the countryside who seems not used to city life
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8.9
A loud rude person who behaves without manners
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9.8
A person from the countryside who seems not used to city life
An insulting word for a rude or stupid person
Antonyms
How Unsophisticated
- Offensive
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9.6
- Offensive
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8.9
- Offensive
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7.5
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2.4
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4.1
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7.7
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word hick likely began as the nickname Hick for an ordinary rural person and later became the name for that kind of person. That's why a hick is someone seen as 'unsophisticated' or from a small town.