hick

[hik]

noun

1. an unsophisticated, boorish, and provincial person; rube.

adjective

1. pertaining to or characteristic of hicks.

   hick ideas.

2. located in a rural or culturally unsophisticated area.

   a hick town.

hick

/ hɪk /

noun

1. informal

   1. a country person; bumpkin

   2. ( as modifier )

      hick ideas

Word History and Origins

Origin of hick¹

1555–65; after Hick, familiar form of Richard

Word History and Origins

Origin of hick¹

C16: after Hick, familiar form of Richard

Example Sentences

The first half of the musical traces Jackie’s rise from a hardworking upstate New York hick to a Florida beauty pageant winner who escaped an abusive relationship with her baby daughter.

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But I was a hick from the north of England.

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To find out how the other India lived, JS spent a few days in a dusty hick town in central India.

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“That office is not some small backwoods country hick organization that fumbles the ball and doesn’t know how to do its job.”

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Mr. Lightfoot, who once called himself a “cosmopolitan hick,” had a shyness that could leave people wanting more.

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