Tom is a yokel.
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Yokel
//ˈjoʊ.kəl//
Synonyms for "yokel" (144 found)
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Translations
88 translations across 30 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- селяк noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- селяндур noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- селячка noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Catalan
2 entries- pagerol noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- taujà noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 土包子 noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- 鄉下人 /乡下人 noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- 鄉巴佬 /乡巴佬 noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Czech
3 entries- (venkovský) balík noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- buran noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- křupan noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Danish
2 entries- bondeknold noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- bonderøv noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Dutch
2 entries- boerenlul noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- boertje van buut'n noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Esperanto
2 entries- kamparanaĉo noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- kamparano noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Finnish
2 entries- juntti noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- maalaisjuntti noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
French
2 entries- manant noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- plouc noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Galician
4 entries- paifoco noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- pailana noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- pailaroco noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- pailán noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Georgian
2 entries- გაგრია noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- ტეტია noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
German
4 entries- Bauerntölpel noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- Einfaltspinsel noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- Hanswurst noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- Hinterwäldler noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Hindi
2 entries- गवार noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- देहाती noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Hungarian
4 entries- bugris noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- mucsai noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- paraszt noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- prosztó noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Italian
4 entries- becero noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- bifolco noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- buzzurro noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- cafone noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Japanese
1 entries- 田舎者 noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Latin
1 entries- petrō noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Latvian
2 entries- lauķis noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- pāķis noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Macedonian
2 entries- се́ланец noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- се́лјак noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Māori
1 entries- panekāka noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Dommabua noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Polish
4 entries- gbur noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- kindybał noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- ordynus noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- prostaczka noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Portuguese
4 entries- caipira noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- campónio noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- labrego noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- saloio noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Punjabi
2 entries- پینْڈُو noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- ਪੇਂਡੂ noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Romanian
3 entries- bădăran noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- mojic noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- țăran noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Russian
1 entries- дереве́нщина noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- seljak noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- seljačina noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Spanish
4 entries- chúntaro noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- gueishpo noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- paleto noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- palurdo noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Turkish
1 entries- maganda noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Yiddish
4 entries- גלאָמפּ noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- פּויער noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- פּויערטע noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
- קליינשטעטלדיקע noun (a person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
They love the scenery near their summer home, but have no desire to mix with the local yokels.
Source: wiktionary
“[…] my opinion at once is […] that this [robbery] wasn’t done by a yokel―eh, Duff?” “Certainly not,” replied Duff. “And, translating the word yokel, for the benefit of the ladies, I apprehend your meaning to be that this attempt was not made by a countryman?” said Mr. Losberne with a smile.
Source: wiktionary
[…] and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.
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