bumpkin

Language

English

Etymology

From Dutch Category:English terms borrowed from Dutch#BUMPKIN Category:English terms derived from Dutch#BUMPKIN boomken (“shrub, little tree”), equivalent to boom +‎ -kinCategory:English terms suffixed with -kin (diminutive)#BUMPKIN. 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.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbʌmpkɪn/Category:English 2-syllable words#BUMPKINCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BUMPKIN
- Audio (US): (file)
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(Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈbʊmpkɪn/Category:English 2-syllable words#BUMPKIN Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BUMPKIN
Rhymes: -ʌmpkɪn Category:Rhymes:English/ʌmpkɪn#BUMPKIN Category:Rhymes:English/ʌmpkɪn/2 syllables#BUMPKIN
Hyphenation: bump‧kin

Noun

bumpkin (plural bumpkins)Category:English lemmas#BUMPKIN Category:English nouns#BUMPKIN Category:English countable nouns#BUMPKIN Category:English entries with incorrect language header#BUMPKIN Category:Pages with entries#BUMPKIN Category:Pages with 1 entry#BUMPKIN

A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.
- 2009, Bhaskar Sarkar, “Bengali Cinema: A Spectral Subnationality”, in Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, part I (A Resonant Silence), page 158:
  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.
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(nautical Category:en:Nautical#BUMPKIN) A short boom or spar used to extend a sail or secure a stay.
Dance, a series of reels, Scottish.
- 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, act 1:
  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.
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Derived terms

Translations

yokel

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Armenian: անտաշ մարդ (antaš mard)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#BUMPKIN, գեղցի m (geġcʻi)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#BUMPKIN (derogatory, colloquial)
Bulgarian: дръвни́к (bg) m (drǎvník)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#BUMPKIN, пън (bg) m (pǎn)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#BUMPKIN
Catalan: taujà (ca) mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#BUMPKIN, pagerol (ca) mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#BUMPKIN
Chinese:
Cantonese: 鄉下人 / 乡下人 (hoeng¹ haa^6-2 jan⁴)Category:Cantonese terms with redundant transliterations#BUMPKIN Category:Terms with Cantonese translations#BUMPKIN

Mandarin: 鄉下佬 / 乡下佬 (zh) (xiāngxialǎo)Category:Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#BUMPKIN Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#BUMPKIN, 鄉下人 / 乡下人 (zh) (xiāngxiarén)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#BUMPKIN Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#BUMPKIN
Danish: bondejokke cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#BUMPKIN, bondeknold cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#BUMPKIN, bonderøv cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#BUMPKIN
Esperanto: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Esperanto#BUMPKIN
Finnish: tomppeli (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#BUMPKIN
French: plouc (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#BUMPKIN, péquenaud (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#BUMPKIN, manant (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#BUMPKIN
Galician: pailánCategory:Terms with Galician translations#BUMPKIN, badocoCategory:Terms with Galician translations#BUMPKIN, paduán (gl)Category:Terms with Galician translations#BUMPKIN, paifoco (gl)Category:Terms with Galician translations#BUMPKIN, pailarocoCategory:Terms with Galician translations#BUMPKIN, paiolo (gl)Category:Terms with Galician translations#BUMPKIN
German: Hinterwäldler (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#BUMPKIN, Bauerntölpel (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#BUMPKIN, Tölpel (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#BUMPKIN
Greek: βλάκας (el) m (vlákas)Category:Terms with Greek translations#BUMPKIN
Irish: cábóg fCategory:Terms with Irish translations#BUMPKIN, tútachán mCategory:Terms with Irish translations#BUMPKIN, dundarlán mCategory:Terms with Irish translations#BUMPKIN
Italian: buzzurro (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#BUMPKIN, villico mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#BUMPKIN, cafone (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#BUMPKIN, zappaterra (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#BUMPKIN
Khmer: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Khmer#BUMPKIN
Korean: 촌놈 (chonnom)Category:Terms with Korean translations#BUMPKIN, 촌뜨기 (chontteugi)Category:Terms with Korean translations#BUMPKIN, 시골뜨기 (ko) (sigoltteugi)Category:Terms with Korean translations#BUMPKIN
Lao: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Lao#BUMPKIN
Latin: petrō mCategory:Terms with Latin translations#BUMPKIN, rūsticus (la) mCategory:Terms with Latin translations#BUMPKIN
Māori: panekākaCategory:Terms with Māori translations#BUMPKIN
Plautdietsch: Dommabua mCategory:Terms with Plautdietsch translations#BUMPKIN
Romanian: țăran (ro) mCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#BUMPKIN
Spanish: paleto (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#BUMPKIN, palurdo (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#BUMPKIN, montañero mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#BUMPKIN, montuno (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#BUMPKIN, cazurro (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#BUMPKIN, guajiro (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#BUMPKIN, jíbaro (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#BUMPKIN, pueblerino (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#BUMPKIN, grullo (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#BUMPKIN (colloquial), cateto (es) mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#BUMPKIN (derogatory, colloquial)
Swedish: klumpeduns (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#BUMPKIN, fårskalle (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#BUMPKIN, bondläpp (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#BUMPKIN
Thai: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Thai#BUMPKIN
Vietnamese: nhà quê (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#BUMPKIN

nautical: a short boom or spar used to extend a sail or secure a stay

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Bulgarian: please add this translation if you canCategory:Requests for translations into Bulgarian#BUMPKIN

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