yokel

(Anglès)

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

Freqüència

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Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ˈjəʊ.kəl/
Etimologia (Anglès)

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

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