What's the difference between rube and yokel?

Rube


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Only with follicular walls and capsules of corpora lutea was the step linear dose-response relationship similar to that shown by the uterine rube obtained by alternating current stimulation.
  • (2) The coin lesions of 361 patients who were at our diagnostic ward from 1968 to 1970 were defined according to Rube [1967].
  • (3) This conclusion, however, is opposite to that derived from experiments with partial neuromuscular blockade which demonstrated the importance of central command in determining the cardiovascular response to static exercise (Leonard, Mitchell, Mizuno, Rube, Saltin & Secher, 1985).
  • (4) In deciding not to hand control of his business to outside executives, Trump had created a “Rube Goldberg” device – an unnecessarily complicated machine for solving a simple problem – that was unlikely to serve its purpose, said Henning.
  • (5) From a total of 73 cultures isolated from glucose-1-phosphate roll rubes, only 15.1% were presumptively identified as Bacteroides species.
  • (6) That whole ‘trust me’ thing can be very debilitating, when you go, ‘I think I know how this can play.’ And also when you get a piece of material like [Gone Girl], it’s a lot of faith on the part of Ben Affleck to come in and go ‘Okay, I’m the rube.’” There’s no decision yet on his next feature.
  • (7) Small movies that will be great Listen up, you rubes.
  • (8) It’s some of the best stuff she’s done since the 2008 RNC (before she devolved into speeches composed of a miscellany of punchlines and red-meat-for-the-rubes bumper stickering).
  • (9) We felt part of the momentum, rather than a parasite or a rube.
  • (10) By bringing them face to face, Gibson was addressing the tendency of any given generation to assume that “the inhabitants of the past are hicks and rubes, and the inhabitants of the future are effete, overcomplicated beings with big brains and weak figures.

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.

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