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
  • bumpkin
  • honyock
  • hayseed
  • country
  • kissing cousin
  • kissing cousins
  • free spirit
  • times change
  • verse in
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His freshman classmates at Moscow State University may have sneered at the country bumpkin who wore on his lapel the coveted "Order of the Red Banner of Labor" he earned in five summers of helping his father run a mammoth combine harvester, but Gorbachev also knew, better than they, that Stalin's collectivization had left the countryside a disaster.
Daniel Thielmann 's boyish Leporello and Emma Johnson's engaging Zerlina offered a glimpse of the promising careers that await them, while Brenden Friesen's strong stage presence and vocal edge portrayed a Masetto who was more Don G-in-training than country bumpkin. Tenor Jean-Michel Richers tentative Ottavio fit the dramatic profile of the less-than-adequate, would-be hero; and Garry Gable's Commendatore added a welcome, vocally-rich maturity to the mix.
Pump some iron as Sweddy Bear, save the world as Toilet Paper Man, spread the love as Cupid and just have fun being a Country Bumpkin, The Jumping Dead Zombie, Creepy Clown, Zeus, the Grim Reaper, and Spring Chicken, just to name a few.
Jamie Castle, who works at barbershop City Clipping, described himself as a "country bumpkin" who arrived in Cardiff from Ceredigion having never given anyone a hot towel shave.
Judges described her as a country bumpkin when she blew the audience away with her rendition of Queen's Somebody To Love.
For whereas Freeman's voice had a kind of country bumpkin twang, Simm (who is playing a former Los Angeles cop) isn't having to overegg things.
Helmer Tosh Gitonga's first feature seldom surprises with its familiar tale of a country bumpkin sucked into criminal doings while trying to make it in the big city, but it also avoids cheap melodrama or sentimentality.
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He is directed to a scruffy looking country bumpkin. The marksman offers the bumpkin a substantial amount of money if he can tell him how he became such a good shot.
Except cretinous country bumpkin Laura who clashes with her fellow females and sobs: "Girls never like me."
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The story is still one of a contented mouse, enjoying life in the country and the natural pattern of the seasons, until a fine, sleek cousin comes to stay, disdainful of his country bumpkin cousin's life.
Christopher (California State U.-Channel Islands) recounts her experience as an egg-head in a working-class family and town, an unprepared country bumpkin at an elite college, a restless worker, a raging working-class militant in graduate school, and an intellectual snob professor to mainly working-class students at a regional university.
Gwilym said: "I had the impression he thought I was a Welsh country bumpkin who was there just to take up his time.
She includes several amusing yet trivial anecdotes of how as a student at the University in Leipzig Goethe transformed himself from Franconian country bumpkin to fashionista fop with the accompanying mannerisms.