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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 Scott, Walter, Sir