rube
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Old meaning of hick: hayseed, rube, ill-educated person.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
If you have been investing since your 20s, you’re hardly a rube where your portfolio is concerned.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026
Come for the Rube Goldberg machines, leave feeling like a rube.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2025
De Shields-Moon quickly found herself buying loads of clothes not to look like a rube in her new hometown.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2023
This guy, Sam says, was such a perfect rube he just naturally looked past him to see if there was a trail of wisps of hay on the floor.
From Seven Keys to Baldpate by Biggers, Earl Derr
Vocabulary lists containing rube
Inherit the Wind
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