bumpkins
Meaning of bumpkins
plural noun
- an unsophisticated or socially awkward person from the countryside.
she thought Tom a bit of a country bumpkin
late 16th century: perhaps from Dutch boomken ‘little tree’ or Middle Dutch bommekijn ‘little barrel’, used to denote a dumpy person.
Information about bumpkins
- It is a name.
- The singular form of bumpkins is: bumpkin.
- Languages in which bumpkins is used:
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Hyphenation of bumpkins
bump-kins
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- bumpkins is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
bumpkins synonyms
Meaning an uneducated and unsophisticated person from the countryside:
Meaning an unsophisticated country person:
Meaning a man living or born in a rural area:
Meaning a woman living or born in a rural area:
Meaning an ignorant, rude, or unsophisticated person:
Meaning an inhabitant of a province of a country or empire:
Meaning a man who is rough or clumsy and unintelligent:
Meaning an uncouth and aggressive man or boy:
Meaning a rough and bad-mannered person:
Meaning (in ancient times) a member of a people not belonging to one of the great civilizations (Greek, Roman, Christian):
Meaning a lump of earth or clay:
Meaning a large, heavy shoe:
Meaning a rude, noisy, or violent person:
Meaning a rude, noisy, and aggressive young person:
Meaning another term for yob:
Meaning a person from a rural area:
Meaning grass seed obtained from hay:
Meaning an unsophisticated country person, as associated originally with the remote regions of the Appalachians:
Meaning a person who lives in the country, regarded as being unintelligent or parochial:
Meaning a country bumpkin:
Meaning a talentless, unattractive, or boorish person:
Meaning growing thickly:
Meaning a peasant or man of low birth:
Meaning a rude and mean-spirited person:
Meaning (especially of a bodily part) situated at the back; posterior:
Meaning the part of a metal type projecting beyond the body or shank, or a part of a printed character that overlaps its neighbours:
Meaning a pastoral poem:
bumpkins antonyms
Meaning a person with much worldly experience and knowledge of fashion and culture:
Words that rhyme with bumpkins
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