(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.
Yokel
Definition:
(n.) A country bumpkin.
Example Sentences:
(1) "No one would vote for them because they were seen as fascist yokels," says Niklas Orrenius, a journalist who has studied the movement for years.
(2) The Brontës are shown, with understated relish, as lonely, half-mad spinsters, surrounded by insufferable yokels and the unmentionable stench of death.
(3) This is not just fashion, this is fashion that tries to appeal to grannies and girls alike; to yuppies and yokels, hipsters and hip-replacements.
(4) When, early in the game, a foul-mouthed minor Russian mafioso named Vlad dismisses Niko as a "yokel", he is not wrong.
(5) In future, for the benefit of we yokels, please refer to the Metropolitan police as being in “that there London”.
(6) Talented young actors who wanted a classical career, but lacked the physical delicacy required of ingénues, used to be warned that Shakespeare had written few roles suited to a blunt woman: they might play Maria the housekeeper in Twelfth Night, yokel Audrey in As You Like It, and – the big threat – the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet.
(7) As leader, he has run his party with Bolshevik efficiency – hammering a caucus perhaps a bit over-laden, by historical standards, with yokels, whackos and chancers, into a wide-eyed, tight-lipped regiment of skittish yes-people.
(8) A charged antipyrine analogue may be useful to determine BBB integrity with concomitant antipyrine characterization of probe efficiency (Yokel et al., 1992, J Pharmacol Toxicol Methods 27:135-142), and may not require another analytical technique.