yokel

FREQ #40504

n. (贬)乡巴佬, 土包子, 乡下佬

发音

UK /ˈjəʊ.kəl/
其它
US /ˈjoʊ.kəl/

词形变化

yokels 复数 yokels

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive.

    土包子

    乡下人

    乡巴佬

    贬义 俚语

    They love the scenery near their summer home, but have no desire to mix with the local yokels.

    Some folk'll never eat a skunk, but then again some folk'll, like Cletus, the slack-jawed yokel.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 6

yahoo hick rube bumpkin chawbacon hayseed

上位词 1

rustic

相关短语

local yokel

词源

First use appears c. 1812, possibly from dialectal German Jokel, diminutive of Jakob, cf. Yankee (“little John”) and jacquerie (“a peasant uprising”). Alternatively, from dialectal English yokel, yuckle (“a European green woodpecker”), itself probably a variant of hickwall.

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