hick

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

hick, n. 

 A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture; a hayseed.  [WordNet 1.5]

hick, adj. 

•  rural. Opposite of urban.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  characteristic of rural people, especially those not knowledgeable about matters outside their locality; as, hick ideas; a hick town.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hick, n. esp. US colloq. a country dweller; a provincial.

Etymology

pet-form of the name Richard: cf. DICK(1)

THESAURUS

hick

babe, boor, boorish, bucolic, bumpkin, butterfingers, child, child of nature, churlish, clod, cloddish, clodhopper, clodhopping, clown, clownish, clumsy, countrified, country bumpkin, country-born, country-bred, dove, dub, duffer, dupe, farmer, farmerish, foozler, foul-up, from the sticks, fumble-fist, gawk, gawky, goof, goofball, goofer, hayseed, hicky, hillbilly, hobnailed, infant, ingenue, innocent, inurbane, lamb, looby, lout, loutish, lubber, lummox, lump, lumpen, lumpish, mere child, muff, muffer, noble savage, oaf, provincial, rube, rustic, simple soul, slob, stumblebum, stumblebunny, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticate, up-country, whistle-stop, yokel, yokelish