If you refer to someone as a bumpkin, you think they are uneducated and stupid because they come from the countryside.
[disapproval]
...unsophisticated country bumpkins.
Synonyms: yokel, peasant [informal], hick [informal, mainly US, Canadian], rustic More Synonyms of bumpkin
bumpkin in British English1
(ˈbʌmpkɪn)
noun
an awkward simple rustic person (esp in the phrase country bumpkin)
Word origin
C16 (perhaps originally applied to Dutchmen): perhaps from Dutch boomken small tree, or from Middle Dutch boomekijn small barrel, alluding to a short or squat person
bumpkin in British English2
(ˈbʌmpkɪn) or bumkin
noun
variant spellings of boomkin
bumpkin in American English1
(ˈbʌmpkɪn)
noun
an unsophisticated rustic; yokel
Derived forms
bumpkinishbumpkinly
adjective
Word origin
[1560–70; ‹ MD bommekijn little barrel, equiv. to boombeam + -kijn-kin]
bumpkin in American English2
(ˈbʌmpkɪn)
noun
Nautical
a beam or spar projecting outward from the hull of a vessel, for extending a sail, securing blocks, etc
Also: boomkin
Word origin
[1625–35; ‹ MD boomboom2, beam + -kin]
Examples of 'bumpkin' in a sentence
bumpkin
And I do believe that that bumpkin 's flower was even finer than the one you lost to me, all those years ago.
Neil Gaiman STARDUST (2001)
(noun)
Definition
an awkward simple rustic person
They were considered unsophisticated bumpkins.
Synonyms
yokel
a local yokel
peasant (informal)
Why should I let a lot of peasants traipse over my property?