(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.
Provincial
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
(a.) Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
(a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
(n.) A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
(n.) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
Example Sentences:
(1) O'Connell first spotted 14-year-old David Rudisha in 2004, running the 200m sprint at a provincial schools race.
(2) His senior role in the Popalzai tribe and his chairmanship since 2005 of Kandahar provincial council bolstered his reputation as an Asian version of a mafia don.
(3) Canadian cancer care has evolved under systems of provincial and federal fiscal control and aims to optimize the management of patients within each province.
(4) Parents appear at provincial court in Málaga, part of the process to transfer them to the Spanish capital, Madrid, for extradition hearing on Monday.
(5) An evaluated community action project carried out in New Zealand provincial cities used a quasi-experimental design which compared cities exposed to a mass media campaign, with and without community development, against reference cities.
(6) On 8 January, the ANC held its centenary celebrations in a large sports stadium in the provincial town of Bloemfontein.
(7) The objectives of this study were to document the official oral fluid therapy (OFT) policies of all the ministries of health in South Africa and of the four provincial authorities, to determine what methods of OFT are used in hospitals providing paediatric care, to determine the OFT methods recommended by hospital staff for use at home, to establish the level of support for the idea of one national policy for OFT and to determine what senior academic paediatricians think about these issues.
(8) All these cases' records were linked with provincial birth records to allow determination of maternal age at birth.
(9) The data indicate that zearalenone is an important mycotoxin in the provincial corn crops and that its incidence fluctuates from year to year.
(10) In the western city of Mbandaka, the provincial governor chased opposition witnesses out of his polling station and then spent almost an hour inside before leaving.
(11) The medical directors of the ten Ontario provincial psychiatric hospitals have therefore developed a guide and schema to operationalize the MHA definitions, a novel feature of which is the examination of competence in such a way as to elicit and capture the patient's own responses upon which an objective determination is made.
(12) It is suggested that provincial family planning committiees be established in Papua New Guinea to plan, establish, and coordinate local family planning programs.
(13) I think you get that in any provincial working-class town.
(14) A machine gun-wielding provincial governor took part in tackling a team of Taliban suicide bombers on Sunday when insurgents launched another brazen attack on a government facility in Afghanistan .
(15) Shiloh was born last May in Namibia, an addition to the family's two other adopted children: Zahara, two, from Ethiopia, and Maddox, five, adopted from Cambodia in 2002 after being brought from the provincial town of Battambang by an adoption agent who was later jailed in the US.
(16) Questionnaires were sent to 1,000 individuals with diabetes, who were randomly selected from the provincial health records office.
(17) Ahmed Wali Karzai was the head of the provincial council in Kandahar, Afghanistan's second biggest city, and had been the target of previous assassination attempts.
(18) This week the British fashion industry finally shed its image of cautious provincialism laced with endearing eccentricity and earned the applause of those members of the international fashion community in London for the show of the top ready-to-wear designers and the major fashion exhibitions at Olympia and the Kensington Exhibition Centre.
(19) There is a certain provincialism – this is a state where people really do still expect the candidates to show up.” Most agree this favours the incumbent.
(20) Then in May, the upstart New Democratic Party won a stunning victory in Alberta’s provincial elections , ending 44 years of Conservative rule.