yokels
Meaning of yokels
plural noun
an uneducated and unsophisticated person from the countryside.
early 19th century: perhaps figuratively from dialect yokel ‘green woodpecker’.
Information about yokels
- It is a name.
- The singular form of yokels is: yokel.
- Languages in which yokels is used:
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Hyphenation of yokels
yokels
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- yokels is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
yokels synonyms
Meaning an unsophisticated or socially awkward 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 the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded:
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 (in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries) a peasant farmer:
Meaning an Italian peasant or countryman:
Meaning an Italian peasant girl or peasant woman:
Meaning a peasant of Spanish or Italian ethnic origin:
Meaning a Russian peasant:
Meaning a peasant in Russia wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labour. Emerging after the emancipation of serfs in the 19th century the kulaks resisted Stalin's forced collectivization, but millions were a:
Meaning an Egyptian peasant:
Meaning an Indian peasant or tenant farmer:
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:
Words that rhyme with yokels
Buckels, Seckels, cupronickels, deckels, mispickels, nickels, pumpernickels, seckels, teckels, shekels, pannikels, schnorkels, snorkels
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