'Yokel' definitions:
Definition of 'yokel'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Yokel'
From: GCIDE
- Yokel \Yo"kel\, n. [Perhaps from an AS. word akin to E. gawk.] A country bumpkin. [Eng.] --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'yokel'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arriviste,
- Babbitt,
- babe,
- backwoodsman,
- blockhead,
- blunderer,
- blunderhead,
- boor,
- boorish,
- botcher,
- bounder,
- bourgeois,
- bucolic,
- bumbler,
- bumpkin,
- bungler,
- cad,
- child,
- child of nature,
- churl,
- churlish,
- clod,
- cloddish,
- clodhopper,
- clodhopping,
- clodknocker,
- clot,
- clown,
- clownish,
- countrified,
- country bumpkin,
- country-born,
- country-bred,
- dolt,
- dove,
- dupe,
- epicier,
- farmer,
- farmerish,
- from the sticks,
- fumbler,
- gawk,
- gawky,
- gowk,
- groundling,
- guttersnipe,
- hayseed,
- hick,
- hicky,
- hillbilly,
- hobnailed,
- hooligan,
- ill-bred fellow,
- infant,
- ingenue,
- innocent,
- inurbane,
- klutz,
- lamb,
- looby,
- lout,
- loutish,
- low fellow,
- lubber,
- lummox,
- lumpen,
- lumpish,
- mere child,
- mucker,
- noble savage,
- nouveau riche,
- oaf,
- ox,
- parvenu,
- peasant,
- Philistine,
- ribald,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- rube,
- ruffian,
- rustic,
- simple soul,
- slouch,
- slubberer,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- unsophisticate,
- up-country,
- upstart,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- yokelish