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yokel, rube, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon

n. not very intelligent or interested in culture

adj. awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"

rustic, unsophisticated, bumpkinly

adj. awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"

savage, barbarian

n. a member of an uncivilized people

tike, tyke, Goth, churl, peasant, barbarian, boor

n. a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

philistine, lowbrow

n. a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits

brogan, brogue, clodhopper, work shoe

n. a thick and heavy shoe

farming, agrarian, agricultural

adj. relating to rural matters; "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities"

rustic, agrestic

adj. characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic simplicity"; "rustic stone walls"

pastoral, bucolic, Arcadian, rustic

adj. used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility"

rustic, countrified, countryfied

adj. characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic awkwardness"

country, country-bred

adj. rough and uncouth; "a country boy"

country, country-style

adj. typical of the country; "country-style sausage"; "country music"

homespun, folksy, cracker-barrel

adj. characteristic of country life; "cracker-barrel philosophy"; "folksy humor"; "the air of homespun country boys"

farm

adj. "farm animals"; "a farm hand"

frontier

adj. on the American frontier: "one of the last real frontier towns"; "hardships of frontier life"

hobnailed

adj. marked by the wearing of heavy boots studded with hobnails; "hobnailed laborers"

insular, parochial

adj. narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parochial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners"

pokey, jerkwater, one-horse, poky

adj. small and remote and insignificant; "a jerkwater college"; "passed a series of poky little one-horse towns"

stay-at-home

adj. not given to travel; "a stay-at-home friend"

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