(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.
Rustic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity.
(a.) Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.
(a.) Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected.
(n.) An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.
(n.) A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Camp out, rustic-style, at the Observatorio Astronómico de la Tatacoa, 4km east of Villavieja.
(2) The rustic rooms have clay tiles and wooden furniture, and the walls are brightened up with local fabrics.
(3) Yet for all the colourful cushions, plants, rustic ivy-lined facade and local artworks, it’s the nouveau prices that most appeal.
(4) With the music, as in this summer’s Roman season: the composer Claire van Kampen , licensed by Globe boss Dominic Dromgoole, worked around the idea that the Romans imported their festive music, and its instruments, from North Africa, and got hold of Moroccan and rustic Spanish drums and buzz-booming shawms .
(5) and steaming up Norris's glasses with plans to turn the Rovers into a rustic-inspired gastropub with cross-generational plate-appeal ("Cumberland sausage is all the rage in Clitheroe …").
(6) There is a bucolic tendency running deep in the national character, expressing itself in a love of rustic poets and painters, and it is this part of us that has turned to fury at the coalition government and its prosaically named Draft National Planning Policy Framework.
(7) But when we get there the restaurant, with its rustic dacha -style Russian decor, leaves us both feeling slightly spooked.
(8) For something typical of the rustic northern countryside, try cabrito asado , a slow-roasted young goat cooked in a wood-burning oven.
(9) Maní is more rustic and informal than DOM – simple furniture, whitewashed walls and a ceiling of dried branches laid over rafters – but the food is no less adventurous.
(10) Anyone looking for simple, rustic, affordable experiences in priceless locations will find they’re in luck.
(11) Hidden gems and locals’ tips Mountain cabins In every highland region in Spain there will be a selection of rustic mountain cabins: refugios de montaña .
(12) This Anglo-Brazilian affair offers the best of both worlds: four rustic bungalows hidden away in rainforest, near a handful of easily accessed beaches.
(13) Cameron’s rustic ruin David Cameron has acquired a faux-rustic shepherd’s hut , in which he is hoping to write.
(14) Outside Kramatorsk's aerodrome, meanwhile, at the end of a rustic rutted alley lined with sycamores and apricots, protesters had set up a new camp.
(15) Inspired by the traditional architecture of Polish summer houses, or datchas , the owners have kitted out the apartments with real flair: rustic wooden furniture, sheepskin throws, woodburning stoves, luxury bedlinen and bathrooms.
(16) As well as rows of semi-automatic weapons of all colours and sizes there are tables with a range of handguns and accessories: Eagle grips in ultra pearl black and ivory polymer, Hornady bullets ("accurate, deadly, dependable") and general appeals to the rustic, manly and patriotic.
(17) The music marked the return of the accordion to French politics, not seen since the faux-rustic former president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing played it in the 1970s – an important message about Hollande's rural, Mr Normal image.
(18) Hernández re-creates not only their rustic speech, but also the natural prosody peculiar to the peasant.
(19) Winning tip: Casa Guedes, Porto Casa Guedes , in the old centre of Porto (130 Praças Poveiros) serves juicy slabs of roast pork in rustic brown rolls, stuck together with oozing sheep’s cheese.
(20) The fresh, contemporary decor – all cool whites and soft greys – makes a refreshing change from the heavy, rustic look typically found in French gîtes.