bumpkin

Related to bumpkin: Country bumpkin

country bumpkin

Someone from a rural area who is therefore not versed in city life or its social norms. Cousin Celia is such a country bumpkin. Last time, she took her shoes off in the middle of a restaurant! Can you dress a little nicer? You look like a country bumpkin in those overalls!
See also: bumpkin, country
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

a country ˈbumpkin/ˈcousin

(informal, usually disapproving) a person from the countryside who is not used to towns or cities and seems stupid: He felt a real country bumpkin, sitting in that expensive restaurant, not knowing which cutlery to use.
See also: bumpkin, country, cousin
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • a country bumpkin/cousin
  • country bumpkin
  • honyock
  • hayseed
  • country
  • kissing cousin
  • kissing cousins
  • free spirit
  • times change
  • verse in
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COUNTRY music is shedding its bumpkin image as stunning Shania Twain turns the world of Nashville and gingham upside down.
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Only final quarter, with the young Kitano resenting the successes of another bumpkin even more clueless than he, drag a bit.
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With most of pic taking place in graceful old provincial towns, the model reflects this setting, as she's something of a bumpkin ready to take on what the 20th century has to offer.
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His character had roots in the Roman clown and the comic country bumpkin. More modern origins can be traced to Pulcinella, a character who appeared in the Italian commedia dell'arte in the 17th century.
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And because he was from Arkansas, forgetting Georgetown, Oxford and Yale, the foreign policy establishment suspected he was a country bumpkin unschooled in the sophisticated ways of the world.