yokel
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In a hilarious illustration of this disconnect, Ms. Hansen writes of a yokel who poured “twenty bags of soil” on the balcony of his Karagümrük apartment to plant beans, tomatoes and peppers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
“People see these as fundamentally silly and unserious beliefs and worldviews. They see a Q believer as a yokel or uninformed idiot.”
From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2024
"Ted Lasso" was introduced as a the story of a out-of-place Kansas yokel in Britain, with Jason Sudeikis playing Ted as the kind of man aware of the assumptions people will make about him.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2021
"She was a bully who treated me like some country yokel from Yorkshire. I couldn't abide her then, so I won't pretend I am looking forward to rubbing shoulders with her now."
From BBC ● May 29, 2017
Dawn Madden did a spazzo yokel voice at the tractor.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
But why don’t the rest of us yokels get schlepped around by private jets when we’re in grave danger?
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2023
Baltz, 42, plays a variety of Midwestern yokels on the improv comedy podcast “Comedy Bang! Bang!” — like Randy Snutz, an amalgamation of dudes he grew up around in the far-flung suburbs of Chicago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
They came up in a conversation of bands we were considering and we’re always gonna vote for the local yokels.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2022
He’s a cautionary tale of what happens to average yokels who fool themselves into thinking they’re ready to take up residence among the sharks.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2019
The British soldier was grinning, and Johnny guessed that he had been put up to this game merely to snare ‘the yokels.’
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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