yokel
Plural: yokels
Noun
- A naive or unsophisticated person from a rural area.
- a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
- A person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive.
Examples
- Despite being called a YOKEL, he consistently outsmarted urban players in Words With Friends.
- They love the scenery near their summer home, but have no desire to mix with the local yokels.
Origin / Etymology
1812, possibly from dialectal German Jokel, diminutive of Jakob, cf. Yankee (“little John”) and jacquerie (“peasant uprising”). Alternatively, from dialectal English yokel, yuckle (“European green woodpecker”), itself probably a variant of hickwall.
Synonyms
bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo, 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, peasant, promdi, provincial, redneck, rustic, woolly back, yokel
Scrabble Score: 12
yokel: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordyokel: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
yokel: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary