bumpkins

Meaning of bumpkins

plural noun
  1. 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.
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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:

yokel

Meaning an unsophisticated country person:

rustic, culchie

Meaning a man living or born in a rural area:

countryman

Meaning a woman living or born in a rural area:

countrywoman

Meaning an ignorant, rude, or unsophisticated person:

peasant

Meaning an inhabitant of a province of a country or empire:

provincial

Meaning a man who is rough or clumsy and unintelligent:

oaf

Meaning an uncouth and aggressive man or boy:

lout

Meaning a rough and bad-mannered person:

boor

Meaning (in ancient times) a member of a people not belonging to one of the great civilizations (Greek, Roman, Christian):

barbarian

Meaning a lump of earth or clay:

clod

Meaning a large, heavy shoe:

clodhopper

Meaning a rude, noisy, or violent person:

yahoo

Meaning a rude, noisy, and aggressive young person:

yob

Meaning another term for yob:

yobbo

Meaning a person from a rural area:

bogman

Meaning grass seed obtained from hay:

hayseed

Meaning an unsophisticated country person, as associated originally with the remote regions of the Appalachians:

hillbilly

Meaning a person who lives in the country, regarded as being unintelligent or parochial:

hick

Meaning a country bumpkin:

rube

Meaning a talentless, unattractive, or boorish person:

schlub

Meaning growing thickly:

bushy

Meaning a peasant or man of low birth:

carl

Meaning a rude and mean-spirited person:

churl

Meaning (especially of a bodily part) situated at the back; posterior:

hind

Meaning the part of a metal type projecting beyond the body or shank, or a part of a printed character that overlaps its neighbours:

kern

Meaning a pastoral poem:

bucolic

bumpkins antonyms

Meaning a person with much worldly experience and knowledge of fashion and culture:

sophisticate

Words that rhyme with bumpkins

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