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
According to Taylor in his autobiography, “Private Domain,” Mr. Wagoner took on the persona “of being a bumpkin in the Big City for all it’s worth.”
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 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
Far from a first-degree murder defendant facing life in prison, he looked like a bumpkin who had won a new tractor.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2021
“I live in Salinas,” Abra said in such a tone that they knew they were dealing with a superior being who hadn’t time for bumpkin pleasures.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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