Hick

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A person regarded as gullible or provincial: "New Yorkers had a horrid way of making people feel like hicks” ( Louis Auchincloss).
  • adj. Provincial; unsophisticated: a hick town.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person.
  • v. to hiccup
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture; a hayseed.
  • adj. rural. Opposite of urban.
  • adj. characteristic of rural people, especially those not knowledgeable about matters outside their locality.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To hop; spring.
  • n. A countryman: used like hodge.
  • See hic.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
  • adj. awkwardly simple and provincial
  • Equivalent
    provincial   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rustic   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    yokel    Rube    yahoo    hayseed    bumpkin    chawbacon    bumpkinly    rustic    unsophisticated    hillbilly   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Crick    Dick    Frick    Mick    Nic    Nick    Rick    Slick    Stick    Vic   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts