bumpkin
noun/ˈbʌmpkɪn/ · Northern-England /ˈbʊmpkɪn/
Etymology From Dutch boomken (“shrub, little tree”), equivalent to boom + -kin. Note that the English word boom is etymologically related to the aforementioned in the sense of "large stem", or "big tree". Compare German Baumke, Bäumchen.
1
A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.
- Since the onset of modernity in the nineteenth century, West Bengalis or ghotis from the Calcutta area, who are generally Hindu, have enjoyed a certain cultural ascendancy within Bengal: they consider themselves more modern, more culturally refined, and more progressive than the bangals, who are dismissed as comparatively backward country bumpkins.2009, Bhaskar Sarkar, “Bengali Cinema: A Spectral Subnationality”, in Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, part I (A Resonant Silence), page 158:
3
Dance, a series of reels, Scottish.
- They mix with Dancers, who now advance to the front, where a bumpkin, or dance of many interwoven reels, is performed; after which the Bride is led to a seat, and some of her Maidens sit by her.1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, act 1:
- Synonyms
- bogan, boor, bumpkin, chawbacon, chuff, churl, clenchpoop, clown, cornball, jay, kern, lamb, lubber, lout, rube, Tony Lumpkin, tyke, peasant, unsophisticate, yahoo, yokel
- Derived terms
- bumpkinish, bumpkinism, bumpkinly, country bumpkin, joskin
- Hypernyms
- person