country cousin:
(plural: ‘country cousins‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ in the first word and the ‘c’ in the second word are said with a ‘k’ sound)
a simple, inexperienced person from the country side who visits a city and gets confused by the fast busy city life, often made fun of by the city people,
a city dweller (L) with his country cousin (R)
When Mr Johnson told his family that a country cousin of his was visiting them, the whole family was shocked and started to plan how to save themselves from the embarrassment he was going to cause them in the neighbourhood.
Unlike most other communities, the Chinese migrant working communities living in cities all over the world are known to welcome their country cousins warmly and give them food and shelter until the new comers find some stable work.
Most city people make fun of those people from rural areas visiting the cities because they think these people are unsophisticated, indecent and illiterates; however, they seem to forget that it’s only a matter of time before those country cousins learn the deceitful, make-believe and unnatural life in the cities.
the family of a country cousin
