yokel
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9.6
- noun
- /ˈjoʊkəl/
- Offensive
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paleto
- Help us local yokels out.
My verdict is you are a full and a yokel.
- My verdict is you are a full and a yokel.
Examples
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Well, it's related to it, but you know they got the FBI, and the Texas Rangers out there, so we're just the local yokels.
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These yokels ran the state.
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Alcohol is also one of the first things that the average yokel would look into.
Blog text (25) -
If this local yokel runs again, I certainly hope the voters remember this.
Blog text (5) -
What do I care what a bunch of yokels are doing?
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"Of course it looks that way to you, you ignorant yokel."
Fiction book (2001) -
It's tough enough dealing with these yokels without you being here, Byron.
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They thought we were yokels.
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Who's he? Homer is the good-ol'-boy local yokel, a hero only in the most unlikely of circumstances.
Blog text (23) -
Many city folks underestimate rural people, calling them yokels and assuming they lack common sense.
Synonyms
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9.6
A person from the countryside who seems simple and old-fashioned
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9.9
A person from the countryside who is not used to city life
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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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9.9
A rude person who has poor manners
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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 rude person with bad manners
Antonyms
How Unsophisticated
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word yokel has an uncertain origin, but a helpful way to remember it is to think of yoke, the wooden bar used with oxen on farms, so you picture someone who lives and works in the country. That farm image helps explain why yokel means a 'simple, not very educated person from the countryside'.