rube
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9.9
- noun
- /ruːb/
- Offensive
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paleto
- The tourist from the countryside looked like a rube when he tried to navigate the busy streets.
- Rube Goldberg
Imagine some ignorant rube who doesn't know about stars.
- Imagine some ignorant rube who doesn't know about stars.
- They want complete centralization because they think that all of us are inferior, stupid, dumb rubes.
- I've had it with these this phrase that you hear often and it's, you know, some rube mouthing off on Facebook.
- And then they roll out Democratic ideas and rebrand them, and then they get the rubes on.
- I saw one clip of some nut, some rube and some RedState arguing about screwing his cousin.
Examples
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A rube from the tall timber, by crackey!
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Imagine some ignorant rube who doesn't know about stars.
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Do you really think Carl is a rube without access to expertise?
Blog text (26) -
"You were a hapless rube in your dream."
Fiction book (1991) -
He thought he had himself a rube.
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The rube's marriage is doomed.
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A total rube.
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Two happenin' guys at the counter look over and chuckle at the rube.
Fiction book (1999) -
They all look like superstitious rubes.
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And they're treated by Trudeau as these stupid rubes who just don't understand what's good for them.
Synonyms
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9.6
A person from the countryside who seems simple and old-fashioned
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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
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8.2
A person from the countryside who is inexperienced with city life
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6.3
A person from the countryside who seems simple and not used to city life
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9.9
A person from a small town who seems old-fashioned
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9.9
A person who is not very intelligent
A person who behaves in a silly way
A person who is simple and easily fooled
An old word for a person who is foolish or slow to understand
A person from the country who is rough, clumsy, and simple
Antonyms
How Sophisticated
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word rube probably comes from the name Reuben, once used for a simple 'country' man. A helpful way to remember this is to imagine a country man called Reuben who seems surprised in the city, which is why rube means someone 'unsophisticated' or 'naive'.