| 单词 | yokel |
| 释义 | yokel (once / 12669 pages) n Yokel is a disparaging name for someone from a small town or the countryside. To call someone a yokel is to imply that they are unsophisticated, uneducated, and probably dim-witted. Before the age of internet and television, if you grew up in a small town or on a farm, you probably wouldn’t have known about the latest fashions of Paris and Milan or the best restaurants in New York. Even now, if you live in a remote place, you may have a somewhat provincial understanding of the world. If so, when you visit the Big City an unkind “city slicker” may call you a yokel. WORD FAMILYyokel: yokel-like, yokelish, yokels USAGE EXAMPLESJohn Barnes, a 60-year-old Air Force retiree living in Albuquerque, said he liked that Trump was “hiring outsiders and not local yokel knuckleheads.” Seattle Times(Dec 18, 2016) Mencken mocked the earnestness of communities like Chautauqua; Lewis described this survey-course learning as “nothing but wind and chaff and ... the laughter of yokels.” New York Times(Nov 07, 2016) In it, Mr. Stanley, as a city slicker lost in the country, questions and gets smart answers from Carter, portraying a wisecracking local yokel: Washington Post(Jun 23, 2016) n a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture Syn|Hyper bumpkin, chawbacon, hayseed, hick, rube, yahoo rustic an unsophisticated country person |
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