yokel

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: yo=kel

CIDE DICTIONARY

yokel, n. [Perhaps from an AS. word akin to E. gawk.].

 A country bumpkin.  Dickens.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

yokel, n. a rustic; a country bumpkin.

Etymology

perh. f. dial. yokel green woodpecker

THESAURUS

yokel

Babbitt, Philistine, arriviste, babe, backwoodsman, blockhead, blunderer, blunderhead, boor, boorish, botcher, bounder, bourgeois, bucolic, bumbler, bumpkin, bungler, cad, child, child of nature, churl, churlish, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clodhopping, clodknocker, clot, clown, clownish, countrified, country bumpkin, country-born, country-bred, dolt, dove, dupe, epicier, farmer, farmerish, from the sticks, fumbler, gawk, gawky, gowk, groundling, guttersnipe, hayseed, hick, hicky, hillbilly, hobnailed, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, infant, ingenue, innocent, inurbane, klutz, lamb, looby, lout, loutish, low fellow, lubber, lummox, lumpen, lumpish, mere child, mucker, noble savage, nouveau riche, oaf, ox, parvenu, peasant, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rube, ruffian, rustic, simple soul, slouch, slubberer, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticate, up-country, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yokelish

ROGET THESAURUS

yokel

Bungler

N bungler, blunderer, blunderhead, marplot, fumbler, lubber, duffer, dauber, stick, bad hand, poor hand, poor shot, butterfingers, no conjurer, flat, muff, slow coach, looby, lubber, swab, clod, yokel, awkward squad, blanc-bec, galoot, land lubber, fresh water sailor, fair weather sailor, horse marine, fish out of water, ass in lion's skin, jackdaw in peacock's feathers, quack, lord of misrule, sloven, slattern, trapes, amateur, novice, greenhorn (learner), il n'a pas invente' la poudre, he will never set the Thames on fire, acierta errando, aliquis in omnibus nullus in singulis.

Commonalty

N commonality, commonalty, democracy, obscurity, low condition, low life, low society, low company, bourgeoisie, mass of the people, mass of society, Brown Jones and Robinson, lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders, vulgar herd, common herd, rank and file, hoc genus omne, the many, the general, the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry, king Mob, proletariat, fruges consumere nati, demos, hoi polloi, great unwashed, man in the street, mob, rabble, rabble rout, chaff, rout, horde, canaille, scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society, swinish multitude, foex populi, trash, profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus, vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail, small fry, commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary, proletaire, roturier, Mr, Snooks, bourgeois, epicier, Philistine, cockney, grisette, demimonde, peasant, countryman, boor, carle, churl, villain, villein, terrae filius, son of the land, serf, kern, tyke, tike, chuff, ryot, fellah, longshoreman, swain, clown, hind, clod, clodhopper, hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin, plowman, plowboy, rustic, hayseed, lunkhead, chaw-bacon, tiller of the soil, hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling, gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin, looby, rube, lout, underling, gamin, rough, pot- wallopper, slubberdegullion, vulgar fellow, low fellow, cad, curmudgeon, upstart, parvenu, skipjack, nobody, nobody one knows, hesterni quirites, pessoribus orti, bourgeois gentilhomme, novus homo, snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer, man of straw, beggar, gaberlunzie, muckworm, mudlark, sans culotte, raff, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian, panhandler, sundowner, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench, scrub, jade, gossoon, Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo, unlicked cub, rough diamond, barbarousness, barbarism, boeotia, ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly, below par, no great shakes, homely, homespun, vulgar, low-minded, snobbish, plebeian, proletarian, of low parentage, of low origin, of low extraction, of mean parentage, of mean origin, of mean extraction, lowborn, baseborn, earthborn, mushroom, dunghill, risen from the ranks, unknown to fame, obscure, untitled, rustic, uncivilized, loutish, boorish, clownish, churlish, brutish, raffish, rude, unlicked, barbarous, barbarian, barbaric, barbaresque, cockney, born within sound of Bow bells, underling, menial, subaltern, below the salt, dummodo sit dives barbarus ipse placet.