bumpkin
noun
an awkward, simple, unsophisticated person from a rural area; yokel.
bumpkinly
-
a word derived from
bumpkin.
Example Sentences
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Hyungjin Son and Vinicius Costa filled out the cast as Falstaff’s bumpkinly servants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
Regular mezcal, meanwhile, largely remained humble, unromantic, bumpkinly, but with its own mythology.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016
Why, thou hast been so long in the country, that thou hast got a bumpkinly clod-compelling sort of look thyself.
From Peveril of the Peak by Sir Walter Scott
