bumpkin
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“Shanghai was the place to be. It had the best restaurants, the best nightclubs, the coolest people. I felt like such a country bumpkin, but I learned fast.”
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2024
So a school that I had never visited, Harvard, took an enormous risk and accepted me, and I became a token country bumpkin to round out a class of polished overachievers.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
Memphis, a guitar-strumming gentle giant with a country bumpkin way — touchingly incarnated by Sheldon D. Brown — is the main target of Waters’ irrational ire.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2023
Anduaga’s soigné style, and vibrant yet plangent timbre, made him an uncommonly sensitive Nemorino — more of a melancholy-prone Werther scribbling poeticisms in a notebook than a sunny country bumpkin mooning over his beloved.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
I could only nod and smile and hope I didn’t seem too much of a bumpkin.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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