hick

hick

H0186500 (hĭk) Informal n. A person regarded as unsophisticated, gullible, or coarse from having lived in the country: "New Yorkers had a horrid way of making people feel like hicks" (Louis Auchincloss).adj. Provincial; unsophisticated: a hick town.

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[After Hick, a nickname for Richard, from Middle English Hikke.]

hick

(hɪk) ninformal a. a country person; bumpkinb. (as modifier): hick ideas. [C16: after Hick, familiar form of Richard]

hick

(hɪk)

n. 1. an unsophisticated, provincial person; rube. adj. 2. unsophisticated or provincial: hick ideas; a hick town. [1555–65; after Hick, familiar form of Richard]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	hick - a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culturebumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, rube, yahoo, yokelrustic - an unsophisticated country person
Adj.	1.	hick - awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"bumpkinly, rustic, unsophisticatedprovincial - characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"

hick

noun (Informal) yokel, peasant, rustic, redneck, bumpkin, country bumpkin, hayseed (U.S. & Canad. informal) He is an obnoxious hick.

hick

adjectiveInformal. Of or relating to the countryside:arcadian, bucolic, campestral, country, pastoral, provincial, rural, rustic.

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