Hypertext Webster Gateway: "yokel"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Yokel \Yo"kel\, n. [Perhaps from an AS. word akin to E. gawk.]
A country bumpkin. [Eng.] --Dickens.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
yokel
n : not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: {rube},
{hick}, {yahoo}, {hayseed}, {bumpkin}, {chawbacon}]
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