(n.) An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two most recent additions to the estate are Bumpkin and Puddle cottages, converted from an ancient farm building with thick stone walls and beamed ceilings.
(2) Before she joined the women's movement, she was merely "a pretty girl" (not that she necessarily thought so: her famous aviator shades were, she says now, something to hide behind, and her streaked hair a tribute to Audrey Hepburn's turn as Holly Golightly, Truman Capote's country bumpkin-turned-cafe society girl – a character to whom she "totally" related).
(3) His CGI-rendered face cannot hide a performance of sublime subtlety and his delivery gives a near-Shakespearean richness to Dahl’s towering, lovable bumpkin.
(4) There is the terrible gaffe he makes which sets the whole terrible train of events in motion (it's a small train, admittedly, but big enough to cause havoc); there is his initial impression that Kekesfalva is a genuine venerable Hungarian nobleman, that Condor is a bumpkin and a fool; and, in one splendidly subtle piece of writing, in which an interior state of mind is beautifully translated into memorable yet familiar imagery, he imagines himself to be better put together than Condor, when they walk out in bright moonlight on the night of their first meeting: And as we walked down the apparently snow-covered gravel drive, suddenly we were not two but four, for our shadows went ahead of us, clear-cut in the bright moonlight.
(5) 9.13pm BST 68 min: Samaras frolicks down the left like a bumpkin in a meadow but then spoons his attempted cross into the crowd.
(6) What would have seemed more incredible is that his companion that day, a self-confessed country bumpkin, is about to join the likes of Richard Nixon and Anna Nicole Smith as the eponymous subject of an opera.
(7) Roux's puppet, resembling a country bumpkin, is a regular on the satirical television show Les Guignols, (France's Spitting Image ) and he's been happy to cultivate the image of the paysan who's smarter than he lets on.
(8) Bumpkin has two bedrooms, while Puddle Cottage has three, but both have open-plan lounges, two shower rooms each and contemporary Shaker-style kitchens – though if you want a break from cooking, you can take breakfast or dinner in the manoir's bistro.
(9) • From £656 per week for Bumpkin cottage which sleeps up to four plus two infants, babyfriendlyboltholes.co.uk Le Mas des Oules, nr Uzès, Languedoc-Rousillon Le Mas des Oules is proof that family-friendly and stylish can co-exist happily.
(10) In his new show, he overplays his naivety, casting himself as the Scouse bumpkin embarrassed by his own face on advertising hoardings and nervous at having to snog Ronni Ancona in an episode of Skins.
Peasantry
Definition:
(n.) Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics.
(n.) Rusticity; coarseness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The peasantry had unilaterally ceased paying feudal taxes.
(2) It made possible the birth of local bourgeoisies and states dedicated almost exclusively to the extraction of a surplus value from the peasantry through cash cropping.
(3) It was no longer a purely anti-fiscal movement, but sought to protect those small enterprises that were threatened by new industries and by large-scale management, and it worked with parallel organisations, such as the Union for the Defence of the Peasantry.
(4) The result is that 80% of hungry people live in rural areas and half of them belong to the peasantry.
(5) However, little attention was paid to sociocultural factors, which caused the peasantry to reject the medical care system, or to problems of internal efficiency which inhibited utilization.
(6) He is the cult-like figurehead of the Knights Templar, which claims to be the righteous defender of the peasantry against a corrupt government.
(7) For four decades, the Farc, the army and paramilitaries – claiming respectively to represent the peasantry and proletariat, the state and the landowning classes – fought for terrain and terrorised and drove out those upon it as they advanced or retreated.
(8) If the future of cities means a proletariat turning back into a peasantry, we ought not to expect them to be happy about it.
(9) The groups that already have been at the lowest level of consumption--the middle classes--have diminished their consumption further and the other groups--the peasantry and the working class--have followed them.
(10) New Beginning are about to go on a nationwide recruitment tour and Maguire compares the emerging social movement to the Irish Land League of the 19th century, which successfully gained land for the country's peasantry, or the trade unions of the early 20th century led by socialist stalwarts such as James Connolly and Jim Larkin.
(11) "He writes about the peasantry, about life in the countryside, about people struggling to survive, struggling for their dignity, sometimes winning but most of the time losing," said permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Peter Englund, announcing the win.
(12) The direction of the state is unclear, still wishing to be seen as both the champion of the peasantry and of foreign investment .
(13) No fiction set in the 14th century, for instance, has ever rivalled the portrayal in Game of Thrones of what, for a hapless peasantry, the ambitions of rival kings were liable to mean in practice: the depredations of écorcheurs ; rape and torture; the long, slow agonies of famine.
(14) The English peasantry may have officially died out in the Middle Ages, but a new breed of small-scale farmers who live off a few acres and celebrate life on the land have been accepted to join the world's biggest peasant organisation.
(15) The rats followed peasantry and giving the pest, from which depopulation increased.
(16) In response, the peasantry rose in nationwide protests.
(17) Arafat witnessed anguished family debates about the country's future, and saw something of the "great rebellion", the armed uprising of a desperate and dispossessed peasantry which served as an inspiration for the later, equally unavailing "armed struggle" of his own making.
(18) But communist armed forces established bases in the south and turned from the urban poor to the peasantry as the base of their support.
(19) The present study constitutes a first approach aiming at analyzing this culture among different Costa Rican social groups such as Indian communities, peasantry, field hands, employees, and marginal urban classes as well.