bumpkin

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.
    — Since the onset of modernity in the nineteenth century, West Bengalis or ghotis from the Calcutta area, who are generally Hindu, have enjoyed a certain cultural ascendancy within Bengal: they consider themselves more modern, more culturally refined, and more progressive than the bangals, who are dismissed as comparatively backward country bumpkins.
  2. A short boom or spar used to extend a sail or secure a stay.
  3. Dance, a series of reels, Scottish.
    — They mix with Dancers, who now advance to the front, where a bumpkin, or dance of many interwoven reels, is performed; after which the Bride is led to a seat, and some of her Maidens sit by her.

词形变化

bumpkins plural

词汇关系

近义词
bogan boor bumpkin chawbacon chuff churl clenchpoop clown cornball jay kern lamb lubber lout rube Tony Lumpkin tyke peasant unsophisticate yahoo yokel
上位词
person
下位词
barbarian country bumpkin heathen hick hillbilly ingenue joskin philistine pink rustic savage
衍生词
bumpkinish bumpkinism bumpkinly country bumpkin joskin
相关词
idiot idler ignoramus

词源

From Dutch boomken (“shrub, little tree”), equivalent to boom + -kin. Note that the English word boom is etymologically related to the aforementioned in the sense of "large stem", or "big tree". Compare German Baumke, Bäumchen.
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