Rube

/ɹuːb/

Synonyms for "rube" (105 found)

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human beingpersonrusticsocial type

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country bumpkineasy markhayseedpigeonsuckeryokel

Collocations

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rube biasrube culturerube humorrube imagerube mentalityrube stereotype

Inflections

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Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

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Tom built a Rube Goldberg machine.

Source: tatoeba (7969471)

A couple built a complex Rube Goldberg machine to reveal the gender of their coming baby.

Source: tatoeba (9046037)

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.

Source: tatoeba (11600378)

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