as in bumpkin
an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country
city dwellers who looked down on their cousins from northern Maine as hicks
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Recent Examples of hick
Lincee Ray, EW.com, 10 May 2024
In this movie, Black and Brown people work with one another and with white folk who are not murderous hicks.
—Eisa Nefertari Ulen, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2024
Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
Rimac moved to Germany at age 2 and then to an independent Croatia in his early teens, where he was teased for his hick Bosnian accent.
—Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2021
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Noun
While waiting to be treated, Lauren complains of Braxton hicks.
—Lincee Ray, EW.com, 10 May 2024
In this movie, Black and Brown people work with one another and with white folk who are not murderous hicks.
—Eisa Nefertari Ulen, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2024
Adjective
One is a sick herb; the other is a hick Serb.
—Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
Rimac moved to Germany at age 2 and then to an independent Croatia in his early teens, where he was teased for his hick Bosnian accent.
—Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hick
Noun
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Going to the Ron Burgundy–Ricky Bobby idiot well one time too many, Ferrell plays Cam Brady, a lazy, cynical longtime congressman running against a local bumpkin (Galifianakis).—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
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Carter, perhaps the most decent man to ever occupy the Oval Office, was long written off as a country bumpkin, one who perhaps unsurprisingly left office as a one-term anomaly.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Today’s political speeches and television dramas don’t denigrate Ottoman leaders as unsophisticated conquerors but adulate them as pioneers of a new civilizational order—fair in governance and more compassionate toward their subjects than their Western contemporaries.—
Asli Aydintasbas,
Foreign Affairs,
19 May 2021
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Commutations for unsophisticated folk who had been over-sentenced would have been defensible, but impunity for practitioners of political violence is what doomed the Weimar Republic.—
George Liebmann,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Florida yokels versus the elite Hollywood movie-star kind of group.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
26 July 2024
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Ben’s refusal to stand down for a middle-aged white man seeking to wrest power from him was radical, as was the film’s ending, in which the hero was shot by yokels failing to distinguish him from the zombies previously described as animals.—
Richard Newby,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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This combined with the folksiest possible man being selected for the vice-presidential candidate?—
Ali Barthwell,
Vulture,
7 Aug. 2024
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At the traditional coaches pregame press conference Sunday, Dykes was in two-minute offense mode, blending insight with a folksy nature.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
9 Jan. 2023
Adjective
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But even if the headline acts have to be quietly canceled, the appointment of figures like Sacks and Peirce signal that the reactionary era of US crypto policy is over.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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Amanat recognizes how even their own internal conversations went to either end of the reactionary spectrum.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
5 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Mantle was the voluble hayseed from Oklahoma who could hit anything but was corrupted by the big city, and wound up undone by alcohol and knee injuries.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
21 June 2024
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Today, the variety shows’ wise-clown hayseeds (overalls, prosthetic teeth, silly hats, no shoes) are the ones who get all the good lines, whose material is distinctive in its political sensibility and cultural hobbyhorses.—
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,
Harper's Magazine,
30 Mar. 2024
Adjective
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This year's countrified holiday music program will be hosted by Amy Grant and Trisha Yearwood and feature a night of spirited Christmas classics.—
Audrey Gibbs,
The Tennessean,
3 Dec. 2024
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In the rendition, recorded live at BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, Beabadoobee recasts Carpenter’s acerbic pop-rock hit into something gentler, with a slightly countrified, acoustic-guitar-and-strings arrangement — almost how the Corrs would’ve done it.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Walsh’s male fantasists—the nameless rubes of Ballyturk, the desperate suitors of Penelope, even the heartbroken father at the center of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers—get to strut and bluster and scream into the wind.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2025
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Like master poker players sitting at a table with rubes, Wall Street’s quants and algorithmic traders like Citadel not only profit from Robinhood's customers' trades, but use the large amount of retail trading data from these purchases to anticipate market moves and profit.—
Javier Paz,
Forbes,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Hick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hick. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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