hick

American  

[hik] / hɪk /

noun

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

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adjective

1. pertaining to or characteristic of hicks.

   hick ideas.

2. located in a rural or culturally unsophisticated area.

   a hick town.

hick British  

/ hɪk /

noun

1. informal

   1. a country person; bumpkin

   2. ( as modifier )

      hick ideas

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Etymology

Origin of hick

1555–65; after Hick, familiar form of Richard

Example Sentences

But I was a hick from the north of England.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2024

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

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023

They’d all gone to art schools — Cooper Union and Cranbrook and Cleveland Institute of Art and Pratt and Parsons — and thought I was this hick.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2022

Bird was “the hick from French Lick,” the aw-shucks guy from a small town in Indiana who often said he couldn’t run or jump.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2022

I could tell by her face, her tone, that I had somehow missed something important in what she’d said, and had again revealed myself as the small-town hick I often felt like around her.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth