bumpkin:
(plural: ‘bumpkins‘; the letter ‘u’ in this word rhymes with the letter ‘u’ in ‘but’, and the letter ‘i’ rhymes with the letter ‘i’ in “in” — ‘bump…kin’)
a foolish person, especially the one coming from the countryside (village),
a typical country bumpkin
e.g.
Joseph felt very bad when his cousin called him a bumpkin.
After receiving the Best Farmer of the Year award, the millionaire farmer Ted Williams said in his speech that he was a country bumpkin at heart and he liked it that way.
I remember reading in an article that most French people think that the English people are all country bumpkins!
For an article that shows how the word bumpkin is used in our day-to-day life, please click here.
For an interesting item of news in which the US President Barack Obama was called a bumpkin,
please click here.
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