yokel

Meaning

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

Synonyms

bumpkin

hick

peasant

countryman

boor

country bumpkin

rustic

hayseed

rube

redneck

churl

chawbacon

villager

yahoo

out-of-towner

bounder

hillbilly

roughneck

cathetus

flat

scullion

simpleton

underbred

gullible person

clodhopper

bumpkinly

coon

countryside people

visitor from the country

lout

muggins

Translations

caipira

rústico

tanghero

boerenlul

paleto

zotico

boer

🅰️

αγροίκος

Hinterwäldler

contadino

plouc

Bauer

🧑‍🌾

paysan

rustre

villano

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈjəʊ.kəl/

Etymology

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.