Tom built a Rube Goldberg machine.
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Rube
//ɹuːb//
Synonyms for "rube" (122 found)
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Related words (61)
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8 entriesTranslations
26 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- наивник noun (pejorative: uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person)
- селяндур noun (person of rural heritage; a yokel)
Czech
3 entries- (venkovský) balík noun (person of rural heritage; a yokel)
- buran noun (pejorative: uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person)
- křupan noun (pejorative: uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person)
Danish
1 entries- bonderøv noun (person of rural heritage; a yokel)
Dutch
4 entries- boerenpummel noun (person of rural heritage; a yokel)
- mafkees noun (pejorative: uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person)
- plattelander noun (person of rural heritage; a yokel)
- simpele ziel noun (pejorative: uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person)
Finnish
2 entries- juntti noun (pejorative: uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person)
- maalainen noun (person of rural heritage; a yokel)
French
1 entries- plouc noun (person of rural heritage; a yokel)
German
4 entries- Bauerntrampel noun (person of rural heritage; a yokel)
- Bauerntölpel noun (person of rural heritage; a yokel)
- Trottel noun (pejorative: uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person)
- Tölpel noun (pejorative: uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person)
Hungarian
1 entries- bugris noun (pejorative: uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person)
Norwegian
1 entries- bondetamp noun (person of rural heritage; a yokel)
Polish
2 entries- prostak noun (pejorative: uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person)
- wieśniak noun (person of rural heritage; a yokel)
Russian
4 entries- деревенщина noun (person of rural heritage; a yokel)
- недотёпа noun (pejorative: uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person)
- проста́к noun (pejorative: uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person)
- простофиля noun (pejorative: uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
A couple built a complex Rube Goldberg machine to reveal the gender of their coming baby.
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When I moved to New York, everyone I met treated me like a rube.
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Herscher says he has gotten ideas from the drawings of farfetched machines by the late American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, whose name is associated in the United States with preposterous complexity.
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