rube

Plural: rubes

Noun

• A naive or unsophisticated person from a rural area.
• a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
• A person of rural heritage; a yokel.
• An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person.

Examples

• Don’t be a rube and play a single letter on a triple word score.

Synonyms

bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, yahoo, yokel, bogger, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, carl, churl, clodhopper, corncob, cornhusker, country bumpkin, country cousin, culchie, dubbo, hillbilly, hob, hobnail, hog-rubber, honyock, hunk, joskin, lob, promdi, provincial, redneck, rube, rustic, woolly back